Occupation: Artist Birth: May 15, 1930
I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a d….
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own..
Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He woul….
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nat….
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board..
Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with t….
A-not-complete-unit, or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together. One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea….
I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't..
Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and wha….
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helples….
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occur….
Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn….
Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Nex….
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was an….
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a fi….
Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions..
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures..
One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it..
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..
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists..