We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist mus...
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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.
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