I am always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
Who Moved My Cheese? calendar, 2002
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes -- and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Los ordenadores son inútiles. Sólo pueden darte respuestas.
[Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.]
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
El arte es una mentira que nos acerca a la verdad.
[Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.]
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Also trans., "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' taste."
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