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"Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."
"We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
"What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life."
"Take Einstein; wasn't he looking for something stable and changeless in this enormous, constantly changing melting pot that is the universe? He sought fixed rules. Today, instead, it would be helpful to find all those rules that show how and why the universe is not fixed - how this dynamism develops and acts. Then maybe we will be able to explain many things, perhaps even art, because the old instruments of judgment, the old aesthetics, are no longer of any use to us - so much so that we no longer know what's beautiful and what isn't."
"Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure."
"Art is a shadow of Divine perfection."
"I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"Art demands of us that we shall not stand still."
"The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal. While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him."
"Only art and science can raise men to the level of God."
"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought."
"Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research."
"I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance."
"If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art."
"Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy."
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun"
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
"The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists."
"A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned."
