The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.
Now there is fame! Of all – hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public – fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Everything exists in limited quantity – especially happiness.
Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
To find is the thing.
All Children are Artists.
If I could say this I wouldn’t have to paint.
The more technique there is, the less there is.
I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.
Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one’s whole lifetime.
We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.
I’ve reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.
So there’s only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.