The Decay of Lying (1889)
Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By H S (Jim) Ede Heinimann (1931)
Source: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
“It would be a sad thing for an artist if he knew how to paint.”
so sad. An artist paints because it is a challenge to him – it is like trying to twist the devil. If you overcome it, there is no sport left. I don't even like to talk about painting. It is impossible to talk about painting because I don't know what it is. If I knew what it was I would get out a patent and then no one else would be able to paint.
1942 - 1948, A Painter in a Glass House' (1948)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“The great artist takes what he needs.”
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 5: The Hero as Artist
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Context: An artist produces an effect in virtue of the distinctness with which he sees the objects he represents, seeing them not vaguely as in vanishing apparitions, but steadily, and in their most characteristic relations. To this Vision he adds artistic skill with which to make us see. He may have clear conceptions, yet fail to make them clear to us: in this case he has imagination, but is not an artist. Without clear Vision no skill can avail. Imperfect Vision necessitates imperfect representation; words take the place of ideas.
“Every child is an artist until he's told he's not an artist.”
Picasso quoted in 'TIME'; quoted in: The Atlantic, Vol. 214 (1964), p. 97.
Picasso commented on his ambiguous style, or use of multiple styles.
1960s
