(6 quotes found)
“I don't paint things the way I see them, but the way I think them.”
Pablo Picasso
“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.”
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.”
“My work is like a diary. To understand it, you have to see how it mirrors life.”
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
“Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.”
