The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.
I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney. In that I really like to make people happy.
