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- Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything…
- People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
- 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…
- A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes…
- 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 who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which…
- One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
- I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.
- As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A…
- Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
- I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs…
- 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.
- Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
- No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
- Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do,…
- For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
- Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for…
- When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
- I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
- What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way…
- When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an…
- Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
- The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the…
- I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would…
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- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
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- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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