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Action is the foundational key to all success.   Success
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativen...  
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate ...  
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct ...  
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.  
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.   Computers
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that ...  
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.  
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once ...   Art
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of ...  
Everything you can imagine is real.  
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.   Art
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elepha...  
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an...  
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn ho...  
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.  
I do not seek. I find.  
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. Th...  
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.   Imagination
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you th...  
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.  
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.  
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.  
It takes a long time to become young.   Age
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their busi...  
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general...   Art
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you h...  
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the...  
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have prefer...  
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the oppo...  
One must act in painting as in life, directly.  
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left un...  
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and ...  
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we...  
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.   Art
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.  
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.  
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a...   Art
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over th...   Art
The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over th...  
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.  
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.  
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your...  
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.  
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.   Art
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it mea...  
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize ...   Art
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as...  
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood...  
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear vol...  
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really exp...  
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.  
Youth has no age.