Occupation: Painter Birth: October 25, 1881 Death: April 8, 1973
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away..
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist..
Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them..
Good designers copy; great designers steal..
Everything you can imagine is real..
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working..
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all po….
To model an object is to possess it..
I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion give….
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul..
I don't seek, I find..
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the pict….
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I someti….
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima..
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown..
Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice..
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar..
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth..
To find is the thing..
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!.
When you're really young, you're young for life..