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- I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.
- Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he…
- If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this…
- I paint what I think, not what I see.
- As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
- An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
- I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.
- If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the…
- When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
- What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On…
- You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that…
- When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
- Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my…
- If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and…
- The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor…
- If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.
- I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green…
- I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
- It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
- Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
- The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
- If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
- Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to…
- If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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