Quotes About Inspiration

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Sex and art are the same thing.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought

My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Imagination is real.

Art is theft.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.