Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? In...side? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good... for us where we can find it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship ... a dictatorship of painters ... a dictatorship of one painter ... to suppress all th...ose who have betrayed us, to suppress the cheaters, to suppress the tricks, to suppress mannerisms, to suppress charms, to suppress history, to suppress a heap of other things. But common sense always gets away with it. Above all, let's have a revolution against that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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, fr...om a passing shape, from a spider's web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a ...woman we don't start measuring her limbs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »