When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing…

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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga...

One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga...

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made...

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went...

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went...

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of...

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of...

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides...

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around...

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich...

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich...

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams,...

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams,...