What I Capture In Spite Of Myself

The Artist Spends The First Part Of His Life With The Dead, The Second With The Living, And The Third With Himself.

When I Paint I Feel That All The Artists Of The Past Are Behind Me.

I Try To Paint What I Have Found And Not What I Look For. In Art, Intentions Are Of Little Importance.

How Could Michelangelo Have Seen His David In A Block Of Marble? Man Began To Make Images Only Because He Discovered Them Nearly Formed Around Him, Already Within Reach. He Saw Them In A Bone, In The Bumps Of A Cave, In A Piece Of Wood. One Form Suggested A Woman To Him, Another A Buffalo, Still Another The Head Of A Monster.

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