My first wife was a theater person.
All artists are now free to express their own personality.
All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
Art is when things appear rounded.
We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.
We are in this life as it were in another man's house. . . . In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.
I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life. . . . How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.
If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.