When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
I paint abstract expressions.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.