Occupation: Painter Birth: June 27, 1913 Death: June 7, 1980
There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? ….
When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and thi….
There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand..
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they….
The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance..
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see..
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with n….
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing..
We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish..
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm..
It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each ….
But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exi….
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that fee….
Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it….
The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to….
The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the….
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, an….
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing..
More than a process, painting is being possessed..
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process..
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to pai….