Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. 643
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. 1.93K
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. 902
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. 781
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination. 602
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. 720
