From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences: the experiences of sense.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
Often one does a painting really for a corner of the canvas that no one looks at. One does a whole painting for one peach and people think... that the particular peach is but a detail.
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.
To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.