Art Is A Wound Turned

The Starting Point Of A Picture For Any Painter Is A Matter Of Colors And Form...i Believe That The Poetry Of Art - If That Is What One May Call It - Is A Matter Of Animating These Forms And Colors.

I Like The Rule That Corrects Emotion.

I Couldn't Portray A Women In All Her Natural Loveliness.. I Haven't The Skill. No One Has. I Must, Therefore, Create A New Sort Of Beauty, The Beauty That Appears To Me In Terms Of Volume Of Line, Of Mass, Of Weight, And Through That Beauty Interpret My Subjective Impression. Nature Is Mere A Pretext For Decorative Composition, Plus Sentiment. It Suggests Emotion, And I Translate That Emotion Into Art. I Want To Express The Absolute, Not Merely The Factitious Woman.

Once An Object Has Been Incorporated In A Picture It Accepts A New Destiny.

You Put A Blob Of Yellow Here, And Another At The Further Edge Of The Canvas: Straight Away A Rapport Is Established Between Them. Colour Acts In The Way That Music Does.