I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
My painting does not come from the easel.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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