What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Love is on the move like a picture of a statue. I should know, because I painfully painted it.


The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

If you wish to make good art, then you must believe you already do. Otherwise, you will never be good enough.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing...