Occupation: Painter Birth: October 25, 1881 Death: April 8, 1973
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..
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth..
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….
Why assume that to look is to see?.
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be gi….
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. ….
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things..
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late..
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection..
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint..
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will….
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary..
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back a….
If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art..
My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art..