Occupation: Artist Birth: May 15, 1930
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished..
One works without thinking how to work..
I am not strong on perfection..
Merce is my favorite artist in any field..
I never wish for critics..
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and fre….
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as….
I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they h….
Art is either a complaint or appeasement..
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life..
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that..
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts..
I'm working in my mind..
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing..
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscio….
Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me..
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 was very little art in my childhood..
I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to ….
Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old..
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant tha….