Artist Quotes by William Baziotes

Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the…

— William Baziotes

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about…

— William Baziotes

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

— William Baziotes

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred…

— William Baziotes

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

— William Baziotes

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

— William Baziotes

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

— William Baziotes

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the…

— William Baziotes

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

— William Baziotes

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today,…

— William Baziotes

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

— William Baziotes

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very…

— William Baziotes

I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But…

— William Baziotes

Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the…

— William Baziotes