Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
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