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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
All art is an individual's xpression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Precision is not reality
I build a painting by putting little marks together--some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.
A great artist? must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
The aim off art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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