It takes a long time to become young.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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