My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than that, otherwise art would have no meaning. You have to be a child–incidentally children understand my pictures very well, and I haven’t met a serious critic who could stand knee-high to those children. We think that art demands special knowledge; we demand some higher meaning from an author, but the work must act directly on our hearts or it has no meaning at all. Andrei Tarkovsky
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Picasso is known for his controversial statement about art in general and himself in particular, saying that “art is not truth. Artists should be committed to the truth but their work is not true.” He continues to push this idea in his paintings, saying, “I paint my ideas. I never paint what I see. Here the idea guides the hand, not the other way around.” This is an interesting statement coming from Picasso who made his name with paintings which are seemingly realistic yet are sometimes very abstract. The idea of the artist painting what he sees would seem to contradict Picasso’s love of ambiguity and mystery.

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