Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
Picasso

Planning..

I found that if I planned a picture beforehand, it never surprised me, and surprises are my pleasure in painting.
Ives Tanguy

The eye

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture.
Paul Klee

My favorite sculptor quote

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.
Henry Moore

Good answer!

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica,depicting the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty-eight bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The attack killed between 250 and 1,600 people, and many more were injured.

While living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, Picasso suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment:
"Did you do that?"
"No, you did."

The object of art is not to reproduce reality,
but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows,
but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Frida Kahlo

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro

Man is condemned to be free.
Sartre

A quote from a movie

Bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art because it documents human failure.
from the movie Stay

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton

Everything that's not autobiographical is plagiarism.
Pedro Almodovar

Oscar Wilde...

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

True friends stab you in the front.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have
something sensational to read in the train

A quote from an old movie...

Patricia : " Quelle est votre plus grande ambition dans la vie ? "
Le romancier Parvulesco : " Devenir immortel…et puis mourir. "

Patricia : " What is your greatest ambition in life ? "
Parvulesco, the novelist : " To become immortal, and then die. "


Jean-Luc Godard, from a movie A Bout De Souffle (Breathless), 1960

and another one...

Hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Picasso

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Picasso

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali

Marcel again

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste"
Marcel Duchamp

Famous last words

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Pancho Villa

Die my dear Doctor? That's the last thing I shall do!
Henry John Temple Palmerston

They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.
general John Sedgwick, killed by a Confederate sharp-shooter

Karl Marx said that last words are for fools who haven't said enough. I guess these guys proved he was wrong, what do you think?

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee

:D

Je crois à la chance. C'est la seule explication pour le succès des gens
qui nous sont antipathiques.
I believe in luck. That is the only way to explain the success of those we don't like.
Jean Cocteau

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their
opposites
-Marc Chagall

Desecrated urinal

Pierre Pinoncelli became famous with his successful attacks on two of the eight copies of Duchamp's Fountain with a hammer as a statement that the work by now had lost its provocative value. The latest attack happened in 1993 when he also urinated into it before using the hammer.
Pinoncelli said that he actually talked with Duchamp about this before his attacks. " I told him of my plan to destroy the urinal. He laughed and encouraged me."

The verdict of the spectator

...The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world...
Marcel Duchamp

If this is true, without the almighty spectator the process of creation cannot be finished.
So artists, all you can do is to do your part of the job well, and hope...
Maybe you'll get lucky like the Leonardo guy, he sure did a great job.

Ecrire,c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu.
Writing, it is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard

(One of the advantages of blogging)

The beginning..

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sidney J. Harris

I guess this quote is a good way to start a blog, and all i can say is that i will try not to be that amusingly arrogant.
The plan is: i will post all kinds of stuff here in order to start a discussion. If you people find this stuff exciting, intelligent, and impressive enough to post a comment i will post more and more...
If not, never mind, it is worth a try anyway.
Let's get things started.