Occupation: Painter Birth: March 14, 1903 Death: March 4, 1974
Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that….
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought..
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive..
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint..
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the c….
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting..
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence..
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand..