Sayingszone

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer and often the supreme disappointment.

I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is

One has the advantage when you’re very young that you’ve nothing to lose. Later on things become a burden, I think your past work sometimes becomes a burden

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

People say to me that my work’s sensational. And I go, “What’s wrong with sensation? It’s like touching skin.” Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It’s not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it’s sensational art.

So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

he spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

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