When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Copy QuoteThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Copy Quote View & ShareI found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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