Birth: August 22, 1891 Death: May 16, 1973
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death..
A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is conce….
I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do..
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of uno….
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a paint….
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again the….
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. ….
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that i….
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist..