The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
The substance of painting is light.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.