Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
If I don't have red, I use blue.
To be young, really young, takes a very long time.
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
I do not seek. I find.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.