“If you know exactly what you’re going to do, what’s the good of doing it? Since you know, the exercise is pointless. It is better to do something else.” ~ Picasso
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“I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky
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‘When you don’t know how to pick up a brush, you don’t know anything; at that moment you’re an artist. I’ll simply say, ‘If you know less, you’re better off as an artist.’ ~ Milton Resnick
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“From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn’t knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions… That is still true.” ~ Milton Resnick
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“I know when a painting’s finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place. When it becomes clear, there is this energized space, there is this color, there is something interesting to me. What I like more than anything else about painting, and the thing that makes being in the studio attractive, are all the other things that come into making that image. Again it goes back to us sitting here now. I look at you; maybe you remind me of somebody else, maybe the plants behind you make me think of something in a painting, all kinds of stuff starts coming in. Seeing how they fit is really exciting. Let’s say a shape appears. Let’s say I try to get the shape of this tape recorder here, and it goes on the canvas and suddenly reminds me of something else, maybe something on a totally different scale. Can I use that? And does that go back to why I found this interesting in the first place? So, there’s a kind of excavation of my own memories and my own ideas and my own tastes that I find really exciting and really satisfying.” ~ Thomas Nozkowski
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“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.” ~ Francisco Goya
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I want the spectator to be on his own before the paintings, and if he finds in them an imagery unkind or unpleasant or evil, let him look to the state of his own soul. ~ Clyfford Still
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