Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye...
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow.
Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Out of limitations, new forms emerge.
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one’s self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.
It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.
In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.
To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization.
One must not imitate what one wants to create.
The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
La ve rite existe; on n’invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.
I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.