Top 11 Pierre Alechinsky Quotes
#1. Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
Pierre Alechinsky
#3. 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
#4. The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.
Pierre Alechinsky
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
Pierre Alechinsky
#11. 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
