Occupation: Painter Birth: June 27, 1913 Death: June 7, 1980
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over..
Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... m….
There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... W….
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; e….
Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, wha….
Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light..
What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain t….
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation..
I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?.
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert….
Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, criti….
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again..
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the dis….
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? ….
Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is tha….
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum..
I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some….
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to cr….
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?.
No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What….
There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover..