Artist

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

I have sworn to die painting.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.