It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately you rape it.
Art is not what you see but what you make others see.
Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality...
With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future but only way off to the side.
