Selected Modern Artists

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.

I come into the studio very fearfully. I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, 'My God, did I do that?'

It is actually the artist, and only he, who is equipped for approaching the individual directly. The abstract artist can approach man through the most immediate of aesthetic experiences, touching below consciousness and the veneer of attitudes, contacting the whole ego rather than the ego on the defensive

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If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

The man with something to say is an important man in art - in fact, the only man who may claim the title of artist. The manner of his expression matters very little. That will take care of itself. The man with something to say generally says it pretty well.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.