Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

To model an object is to possess it.

When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.