Milton Resnick

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul…

— Milton Resnick

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you…

— Milton Resnick

Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to…

— Milton Resnick

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…

— Milton Resnick

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions…

— Milton Resnick

You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across…

— Milton Resnick

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within…

— Milton Resnick

No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long…

— Milton Resnick

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…

— Milton Resnick

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process…

— Milton Resnick

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

— Milton Resnick

So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came…

— Milton Resnick

There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out…

— Milton Resnick

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely?…

— Milton Resnick

I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it.…

— Milton Resnick

There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves…

— Milton Resnick

It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of…

— Milton Resnick

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you…

— Milton Resnick

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action…

— Milton Resnick

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades…

— Milton Resnick

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into…

— Milton Resnick

Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such…

— Milton Resnick

About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I…

— Milton Resnick

What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have…

— Milton Resnick

I painted myself out of my painting.

— Milton Resnick