I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work.… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
