Painter

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Saya tidak mencari. Saya menemukan.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.