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- Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth…
- Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make…
- Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.
- Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity…
- This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own…
- I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss…
- I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I…
- If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification:…
- The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too.…
- I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you…
- The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that…
- I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never…
- With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen.…
- When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality…
- When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the…
- 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…
- I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.
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