Occupation: Painter Birth: June 27, 1913 Death: June 7, 1980
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow ….
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, t….
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the des….
You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter..….
The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece….
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting..