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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be ... I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants ... [it was] always poetic to me.
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction ... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
The figures ... are not supposed to reveal anything ... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
