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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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+ 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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+ I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. |
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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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+ 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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+ Art is the thrilling spark that beats death - thats all. |
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