Quotes · Skopia

12 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

1964

★ 6.2

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

1945

★ 5.4

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

1964

★ 4.5

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

1964

★ 3.7

Religious literature

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 2.1

Religious literature

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

1195

★ 2.1

Interview · Magazine

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

1956

★ 2.0

Religious literature

The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created.

Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 1.3

Religious literature

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing then thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the man.

The Guide for the Perplexed · 1190

★ 1.2

Interview · Magazine

The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

1956

★ 1.2

Religious literature

The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings.

1168

★ 1.1

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

1935

★ 1.1