The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

- David Salle

Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well? Does it bring the…

- David Salle

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

- David Salle

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to fin…

- David Salle

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go he…

- David Salle

People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a wa…

- David Salle

There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art. Porter says something like, …

- David Salle

Fairfield Porter who has been my model for art writing all along, said that if the most interesting thing about a work of art is its content, it's pr…

- David Salle

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

- David Salle