Quotes and proverbs

“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”

“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”

“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”

“Words make love with one another.”

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”

“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”

“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”

“Only useless things are indispensable.”

“Good taste is as tiring as good company.”

“My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.”

“Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.”

“I wanted to create new appearances, to extract new forms from man.”

“As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.”

“Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.”

“We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce... directly and without meditation.”

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”

“Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.”

“The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.”

“The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. ”

“A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.”

“All critics should be assassinated.”

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

“Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make. "

“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”

“All good ideas arrive by chance.”

“Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ”

“Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.”

“I succeeded in simply attending at the birth of all my works.”

“Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted. ”

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist..”

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

“We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. ”

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. ”