Quotes About Expression

La poésie est toujours un acte de paix. Le poète naît de la paix comme le pain naît de la farine. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

la locura, cierta locura, anda muchas veces del brazo con la poesía. Así como a las personas más razonables les costaría mucho ser poetas, quizás a los poetas les cuesta mucho ser razonables.

Todo lo que usted quiera, sí señor, pero son las palabras las que cantan, las que suben y bajan... Me prosterno ante ellas... Las amo, las adhiero, las persigo, las muerdo, las derrito... Amo tanto las palabras... Las inesperadas... Las que glotonamente se esperan, se acechan, hasta que de pronto caen... Vocablos amados... Brillan como piedras de colores, saltan como platinados peces

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

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.

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.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Sex and art are the same thing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies 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.

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.