No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.
I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider's web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.
Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits. In art, there is room for all possibilities.