Birth: December 10, 1900 Death: May 9, 1964
Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ….
Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, ….
My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion..
You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence..
I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day..
Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easi….
I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of cons….
If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers..