Occupation: Artist Birth: January 28, 1912 Death: August 11, 1956
I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work.
The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there co….
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting..
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall..
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is..
I don't paint nature. I am nature..
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 ….
A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence..
Art is coming face to face with yourself..
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement..
Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in spaceTechnic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the ….
I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater th….
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 flu….
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motio….
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature..
On the floor I am more at ease..
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally….
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them..
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc..
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you..
Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the sur….