Occupation: Artist Birth: June 3, 1928 Death: February 12, 1994
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting..
In terms of existing, everything is equal..
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduct….
If someone says it's art, it's art..
If a chair or a building is not functional, if it appears to be only art, it is ridiculous..
It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its qualit….
Color, to continue had to occur in space..
Design has to work. Art does not..
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist….
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman..
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away..
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small ga….
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most ….
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be..
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface..
Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation..
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be pl….
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like..
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose..
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experien….
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality..