[A canvas is] an arena in which to act. |
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. |
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. |
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall. |
Every good painter paints what he is. |
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. |
How do you know when you're finished making love? [responding to the question: How do you know when you're finished?] |
I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added. |
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. |
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. |
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not. |
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not. |
It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. |
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. |
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. |