The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
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.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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.
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.