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The eye seems to be responding to something living.
Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.
I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.
I kept ... returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
