There are always flowers for those who want to see them. |
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. |
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. |
There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. |
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence, |
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. |
These images in vivid and violent tones have resulted from crystallization of memories of the circus, popular tales or travel. |
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. An |
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. |
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. |
Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given. |
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. |
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. |
When I saw what a mess everything was in I asked for my money back on the ticket. I would have felt I was deserting. If everyone of any value leaves France, what will remain of France? |
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue |