The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see.
Art Quotes
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
The role of art today, again, is to be ahead of the times, to try to criticize and to be very aggressive against the injustices in our societies. There’s an extraordinary exhibition in Paris now on surrealism, the revolution of the cult of surrealism. You can see the surrealists went against the traditional ways of […]
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
There have been a lot of unfortunate cases of writers, painters, who have been melancholic, depressed, taken their own lives. I don’t think it goes with the territory. I think those people would have been depressed, or alcoholic, suicidal, whatever, even if they weren’t writing. I just think it’s their characterological makeup. Whether that characterological […]
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Only a few achieve the colossal task of holding together, without being split asunder, the clarity of their vision alongside an ability to take their place in a materialistic world. They are the modern heroes… Artists at least have a form within which they can hold their own conflicting opposites together. But there are some […]
