Rhyme Quote by David Salle

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now…

— David Salle

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like…

— David Salle

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot…

— David Salle

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to…

— David Salle

Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the…

— David Salle

People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of…

— David Salle

I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the…

— David Salle

I think people have to be given - or take - the permission to say that something is nothing. Just because it's in a…

— David Salle

There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was…

— David Salle

I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

— David Salle

If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are…

— David Salle

I was actually dumbfounded by how some artists talked to each other. For example, it was a normal night at a bar, nothing very…

— David Salle