Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
My favorite is the last: "You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Picasso would think of GK Chesterton's one-liner: "Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."