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My Picture Quotes

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice Picture Quote #1

I don’t want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don’t want you to lose the ten dollars, so I’m enclosing my check for that sum Picture Quote #1

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography Picture Quote #1

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear Picture Quote #1

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point Picture Quote #1

A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change Picture Quote #1

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I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories Picture Quote #1

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life Picture Quote #1

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be Picture Quote #1

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule Picture Quote #1

I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness Picture Quote #1

It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights Picture Quote #1

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It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt Picture Quote #1

I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I’m a journalist. My life’s on the road, my studio is the planet Picture Quote #1

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions Picture Quote #1

I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been happy just to be working. It doesn’t really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever Picture Quote #1

I’m not great at having my picture taken and I don’t enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it’s nice to have a reunion Picture Quote #1

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I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow Picture Quote #1

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there Picture Quote #1

Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos Picture Quote #1

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there Picture Quote #1

I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions Picture Quote #1

I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it’s only a speck of dust or a flash of light Picture Quote #1

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That is why my pictures don’t look like modern art. It’s some sort of timidity on my part I’m sure Picture Quote #1

There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I’m convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am Picture Quote #1

I’m not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don’t need to see my picture everywhere Picture Quote #1

I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false Picture Quote #1

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view Picture Quote #1

I guess I don’t come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don’t match up, I find it frustrating Picture Quote #1

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When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice (My Picture Quotes) I don’t want my picture in any cigarettes, but I also don’t want you to lose the ten dollars, so I’m enclosing my check for that sum (My Picture Quotes) The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography (My Picture Quotes) My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear (My Picture Quotes) The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point (My Picture Quotes) A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects. I was seeing things, instead, as dynamic events, unique in their own beings yet also related and existing together within a universal context of energy and change (My Picture Quotes) I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories (My Picture Quotes) My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life (My Picture Quotes) The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be (My Picture Quotes) My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule (My Picture Quotes) I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness (My Picture Quotes) It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights (My Picture Quotes) It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt (My Picture Quotes) I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years, then they can be considered an art reference, but now they are not made as art. I’m a journalist. My life’s on the road, my studio is the planet (My Picture Quotes) I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions (My Picture Quotes) I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken (My Picture Quotes) I’ve always been happy just to be working. It doesn’t really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever (My Picture Quotes) I’m not great at having my picture taken and I don’t enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it’s nice to have a reunion (My Picture Quotes) I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not be signed. Afterwards I realized it was not so and began to sign my pictures again. Picasso had begun again anyhow (My Picture Quotes) Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there (My Picture Quotes) Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos (My Picture Quotes) I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there (My Picture Quotes) I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions (My Picture Quotes) I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it’s only a speck of dust or a flash of light (My Picture Quotes) That is why my pictures don’t look like modern art. It’s some sort of timidity on my part I’m sure (My Picture Quotes) There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as my picture unfolded, it emphatically suggested another direction... I always accept the risk and go for it. I’m convinced that at such times my painting is wiser than I am (My Picture Quotes) I’m not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don’t need to see my picture everywhere (My Picture Quotes) I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false (My Picture Quotes) While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view (My Picture Quotes) I guess I don’t come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don’t match up, I find it frustrating (My Picture Quotes)

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