top of page
.png){kind=small}
"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
Standard
Customized
More
"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing and Painting are the same for me."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."
Painting
"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
Painting
"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."
People
"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."
Art
"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out."
Art
"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."
Art
"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."
Life
"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."
Art
"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
Architecture
"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."
Success
bottom of page