One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.