Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. |
Action is the foundational key to all success. |
Ah, good taste--What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. |
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing |
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. |
Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized. People just don't have that much vision. |
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it? |
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. |
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. |
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. |
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary |
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth |
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done |
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. |