A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art … - Pierre Alechinsky

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If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability

Pierre Alechinsky

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.

Art, Creature, School, Seldom, Students, Wall

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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.

Artist, Doubt, Expression, Groping, Liberate, Submits

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.

Artist, Inexplicable, Present, Teacher, Teaching, Things

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.

Facts, Kind, Sense, Solitude, Time

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

Coincidence, Form, Modern, Set, Spot

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

Dimension, Doe, Expansion, Mean, Methods, Value