What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic. — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across and breathe… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you. — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you… — Milton Resnick Copy Share
If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do. — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
