Posted by: Federico
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I'm going to walk in the forest of Fontainebleau, I want to have a green indigestion, I have to somehow free myself from this sensation in a painting.
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I'm going to walk in the forest of Fontainebleau, I want to have a green indigestion, I have to somehow free myself from this sensation in a painting.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I don't search. I find.
It takes long time to become young.
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
Accidents, try to change them: it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
I never made painting a work of art. It is only research.