A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.