You know, I have a theory about the decay of art in advanced civilizations. Perhaps it’s a joke, but I believe it may be serious. It is that people want to make ugly things, but at the beginning their tools don’t allow them to. When you find figures or vases in Mycenae or Guatemala or […]
Art Quotes
It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child… I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than […]
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint. (wife of Pablo Picasso)
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.
You say that we need to move towards light and colors. No. Here too our task is content. The face, the spirit of a person, the drama of life, impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history – those are our themes, it seems to me. Paints for us are a tool. […]
Art means to dare – and to have been right.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
