I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.