Occupation: Painter Birth: June 11, 1912 Death: June 6, 1963
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to ha….
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all..
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbo….
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoug….
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity..
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and….
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself..
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me..
Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must exam….
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds..
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting..
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool..
I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon ….
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so tha….
The eye seems to be responding to something living..