Without music, life would be a mistake.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
Where words fail, music speaks.
The art of printing is the art of arts, the preservation of all arts.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
I am a great artist and I know it. It is because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object.
In my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting.
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.
We've never considered our stuff either homage or spoof. Those are things other people call it, and it's always puzzled me that they do.
Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the written word.
Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, and then this river of Giverny which dries up and fills again.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it.
