Occupation: Artist Birth: May 15, 1930
Merce is my favorite artist in any field..
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own..
I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't..
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures..
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some….
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists..
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive..
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing..
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space..
I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like….
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may….
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement..
I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about….
To me, self-description is a calamity..
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something..
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking..
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist..
In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due….
It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people..
I tend to like things that already exist..
I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings..