I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.
I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.
All I try to do is put as many colors as I can on the canvas every night.