Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.
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
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
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
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a wa…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before. - David Salle
The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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
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…
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
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, …
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. - David Salle
For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
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