
“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
in an interview, Sept. 1939; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2008; p. 44
1925 - 1945
Said to avant-garde artists Ely Bielutin and Ernst Neizvestny during a visit to their exhibition (1 December 1962)
“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
Source: Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285.
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”
From a series of interviews with Marco Livingstone (April 22 - May 7, 1980 and July 6 - 7, 1980) quoted in Livingstone's David Hockney (1981), p. 207
1980s