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 »
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures ...in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You say you are incapable of expressing your thought. How then do you explain the lucidity and brilliance with which you are expre...ssing the thought that you are incapable of thought?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »