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Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.
Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us ... There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.
It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
Art is the soul of a people.
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
I want to see how life can triumph.
