I want to know one thing, what is color?
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.
I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
Lord, protect me from what I want!
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.
Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?