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- Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
- I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
- Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why…
- The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no…
- The truth... When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the…
- When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel…
- Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at…
- ... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,…
- And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s (paintings from black-and-white…
- Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do…
- What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any…
- Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different…
- Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
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