Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll… — David Salle Copy Share Image
What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I think people have to be given - or take - the permission to say that something is nothing. Just because it's in a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid. — David Salle Copy Share Image
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar, nothing very… — David Salle Copy Share Image
