The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
If I don't have red, I use blue.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age...
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.
It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We’ve got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.