Quote #13

Variant: I prefer to tack the canvas to the floor... I can walk around work from the four sides and literally be in the painting... this is akin to the method of the Indians and painters of the West.

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  1. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been a…
  2. He broke the ice for the rest of us.
  3. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
  4. A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor. ... There was complete silence. ... Pollock looked at the painting. Then, unexpectedly, he …
  5. Something in me knows where I'm going, and - well, painting is a state of being.
  6. Painting is my whole life....
  7. My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.
  8. Is this a painting?

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