I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you… — 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… — 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… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Really it becomes a question of architecture. How do you move people through a space and allow them to have an experience?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Why should it be difficult for someone to claim their personal reaction, especially in this time where we are only too happy… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent. — David Salle Copy Share Image
I feel very fortunate to have known James Salter, not very well, but I knew him over the years. Always, people would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — 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
