There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.