When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow; the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expressses, is art itself.
(A picture of)a naked woman, although she was covering her pubis with her right hand and her breasts with her left. Covering yourself up like that is worse than showing everything,.
What the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
This is supposed to be an art form, not just a manufacturing establishment. The sensitivity that helps me to act, you see, also makes me react. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.