In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.
Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.
I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.
The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.
I get it. I really do. It's got to suck for people to see your sexual orientation instead of seeing you.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
