Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
I paint what I see and not what others like to see.
Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out. ” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world. ” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.