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I do not like to be a prophet. I like better
to paint than to predict what the next painters
will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration
of order is very much in the air. |
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I have always been very much involved in the
pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption
and destruction. And for a long time, I have
been anguished by the fact that one of its
most conspicuous material results is the flooding
of our world with junk and rejected odd objects. |
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+ Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a
fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s
womb. |
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+ Create like a god, command like a king,
work like a slave. |
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture
has long been considered as one of the primary
elements of the composition. |
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At some point we’ve got to stop asking
ourselves what is the meaning of everything,
maybe it’s not so very important what
it means. It’s probably more important
what the sense of it is.. they are two very
basic and different things. |
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+ Whatever an artist’s personal feelings
are, as soon as an artist fills a certain
area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he
becomes historical. He acts from or upon other
artists. |
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In a successful painting everything is integral..
all the parts belong to the whole. If you
remove an aspect or element you are removing
its wholeness. |
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+ I am a night painter, so when I come into
the studio the next morning the delirium is
over. I come into the studio very fearfully,
I creep in to see what happened the night
before. And the feeling is one of, "My
God, did I do that?". |
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I think art is good at looking back and looking
forward. I don't think art is good at looking
head-on. At the end of the day, people are
more important than paintings. |
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+ A work of art is a world in itself reflecting
senses and emotions of the artist's world. |
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I didn't want to get into something which
is played out and narrow. I want to do as
I like, invent my own interests. |
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+ An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far
lovelier than certain pictures. |
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are
born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic
fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient
instrument of a remote will. |
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As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice,
I began to feel hatred for birds which flew
back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless
sky, because they tried to bore holes in my
greatest and most beautiful work. |
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The final test of a painting, theirs, mine,
any other, is: does the painter's emotions
come across? |
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We get used to a certain kind of color of
form or format, and it's acceptable. And to
puncture that is sticking your neck out a
bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable. |
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+ With the most primitive means the artist
creates something which the most ingenious
and efficient technology will never be able
to create. |
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+ I try to apply colors like words that shape
poems, like notes that shape music. |
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+ Art is not made for anybody and is,
at the same time, for everybody. |
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+ Most painting in the European tradition
was painting the mask. Modern art rejected
all that. Our subject matter was the person
behind the mask. |
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason
why I went to oil was mainly because I didn’t
control it. I was looking for the insecurity
of it. I mean, I might have found another
reason later, but at that moment, the reason
was I was looking for the insecurity. |
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Every good painter paints what he is. |
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I can't always reach the image in my mind..
almost never, in fact.. so that the abstract
image I create is not quite there, but it
gets to the point where I can leave it. |
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism
of visual forces.. an event rather than an
appearance. These forces can only be tackled
by treating color and form as ultimate identities,
freeing them from all descriptive or functional
roles. |
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+ It is a widely accepted notion among painters
that it does not matter what one paints as
long as it is well painted. This is the essence
of academicism. There is no such thing as
good painting about nothing. |
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I'm not precious about my work. If you get
it out into the urban field it's going to
be used or misused but it'll also probably
provide a way of people acknowledging what
the aesthetic is about because people have
to confront it every day. |
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+ I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes
on in the art world, but it's hard to be old
and like what goes on around you. |
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When I work, I work very fast, but preparing
to work can take any length of time. |
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+ Art is the thrilling spark that beats
death - thats all. |
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