Occupation: Painter Birth: October 25, 1881 Death: April 8, 1973
I love bats! Women are scared of them. They think bats can get caught in their hair, don't they? But bats are the most beautiful of animals, extraord….
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it….
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary..
For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats..
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers..
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cub….
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more….
The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do n….
Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers..
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpe….
The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm..
I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks….
Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of additions. With m….
I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it..
I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull..
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping t….
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary..
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me..
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know t….
I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford..
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence..