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- My paintings are wiser than I am.
- To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what…
- Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
- I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
- Painting is another form of thinking.
- Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said,…
- Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They…
- I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.
- 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…
- Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -…
- But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have…
- Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by…
- Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and in the collective…
- I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a…
- When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to…
- 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…
- To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like formlessness and the…
- 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.…
- Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by…
- It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock.…
- 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…
- Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications.…
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