Art Should Not Have To Be A

The Word 'abstract' Comes From The Light Tower Of The Philosophers. One Of Their Spotlights That They Have Particularly Focused On 'art'. [abstraction Was] Not So Much What You Could Paint But Rather What You Could Not Paint. You Could Not Paint A House Or A Tree Or A Mountain. It Was Then That Subject Matter Came Into Existence As Something You Ought Not Have.

I Don't Paint To Live, I Live To Paint.

Art Never Seems To Make Me Peaceful Or Pure. I Always Seem To Be Wrapped In The Melodrama Of Vulgarity. I Do Not Think... Of Art As A Situation Of Comfort.

The 'women' Had To Do With The Female Painted Through All Ages, All Those Idols, And Maybe I Was Stuck To A Certain Extent; I Couldn't Go On. It Did One Thing For Me: It Eliminated Composition, Arrangement, Relationships, Light - All This Silly Talk About Line, Colour And Form - Because That Was The Thing I Wanted To Get Hold Of.

And Then There Is That One-man Movement, Marcel Duchamp For Me A Truly Modern Movement Because It Implies That Each Artist Can Do What He Thinks He Ought To A Movement For Each Person And Open For Everybody.