"The progression of a painter’s work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the el…"

"The passions are a kind of thirst, inexorable and intense, for certain feelings or felt states. To find or invent 'ob…"

"We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. .If previous abstractions paral…"

"It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. …"

"If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon …"

"For the first time a subject is present, not by virtue of its absence, but actually present, though its appearance is…"

"The aesthetic is the sine qua none for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition.. .We feel throug…"

"For me, Still's pictorial dramas are an extension of the Greek Persephone myth. As he himself has expressed it, his p…"

"I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of endin…"

"The activity of the artist makes him less socially conditioned and more humans. It is then that he is disposed to rev…"