When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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One fine day (but all days are fine) as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama . . . I want to be a painter.
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Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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