Printmaker Quotes

“The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.”

“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

“People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!”

“Good taste is the enemy of creativity.”

“People who read are people who dream.”

“If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.”

“People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.”

“They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”

“When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.”

“When you're really young, you're young for life.”

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

“Art is a leap into the dark.”

“The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.”

“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...”

“Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.”

“Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

“Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.”

“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.”

“If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.”

“[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am”

“For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart”

“To be young, really young, takes a very long time.”

“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.”

“The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”