What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at… — 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
