Occupation: Painter Birth: October 25, 1881 Death: April 8, 1973
I hate it when people pilfer my things..
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal..
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth..
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else..
Sex and art are the same thing..
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so much as a shadow of a truth aga….
Art is lies that tell the truth..
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.….
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world..
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order..
When you're really young, you're young for life..
Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working..
Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul..
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….
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all po….
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….
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!.
To model an object is to possess it..
Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown..
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar..
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..