Alechinsky Pierre Quotes & Sayings

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head. — Jill Hennessy

A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls ... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side. — Pierre Alechinsky

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ... CONCRETE ... one builds a picture. — Pierre Alechinsky

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost. — Gunter Grass

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value. — Pierre Alechinsky

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish
stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are
going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.' — Craig Ferguson

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. — Pierre Alechinsky

It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand. — Robert Brunner

The choice
the dedication to one's highest potential
is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four. — John Galt

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood. — Pierre Alechinsky

When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely. — Pierre Alechinsky

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion. — Pierre Alechinsky

Maybe you stole me. Because I distinctly remember belonging to myself once, but now I'm all yours. — Kiera Cass

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced. — Pierre Alechinsky

Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected ... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present. — Pierre Alechinsky

The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads to the discovery of our organic ourselves without fear of immersing ourselves in the earth, the sea, fire or air. — Pierre Alechinsky

Freud offended me. He seemed to feel that any suggestion of depth in human nature was an illusion. — Stephen King

I don't consider myself a fashion designer. — Manolo Blahnik

We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too important to be a dwindling voice in our culture. For the right librarian, this is the chance of a lifetime. — Seth Godin

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease. — Brandon Bays

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that. — Tyler Thornburg

How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem. — Eraldo Banovac

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form. — Pierre Alechinsky

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place — Barbara De Angelis

When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it. — Pierre Alechinsky

I don't know," Gudmund said. "I really don't, Sethy. But we've got now, which is more than a lot of people have, right? Let the future take care of itself. — Patrick Ness

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you. — Pierre Alechinsky