Now there is fame! Of all / hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public / fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. |
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. |
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail. |
One must act in painting as in life, directly. |
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. |
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. |
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. |
One starts to get young at sixty, and then it's too late |
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. |
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. |
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. |
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting. |
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |