An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature. Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants. A note written on the back of one of his sketchbooks. See Cubism .
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. See Dada , photography , readymade , and Surrealism . The painting has a life of its own.