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.
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.