1. “The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.”
2. “I prefer to leave a paintings to speak for themselves.”
3. “We have lost contact with man’s natural desire for the exalted for a concern with our relation to abslute emotions.”
4. “Aesthetics is for th artists like ornithology is for the bir.”
5. “We are in the process of making the world , to a certain extent, in our own image.”
6. “A painter is a choreographer of space.”
7. “When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn black and white for a time.”
8. “Painting, like passion is a living voice.”
9. “It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.”
10. “Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.”
11. “I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.”
12. “I know that it is impossible to talk abou my work. And since it’s impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.”
13. “Any art worthy of its name should address life, man, nature, death and tragedy.”
14. “Anonymity is the truest heroism.”
15. “The image we produce is the self evident one of revelation… that can be understood by anyone who will look at it without the nostalgic glasses of history.”
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