Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. |
In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. |
In love, the one who runs away is the winner. |
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope. |
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. |
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. |
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. |
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. |
Jazz is rhythm and meaning. |
Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme |
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t |
My curves are not crazy. |
The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects. |
The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the |
The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion. |