Even An Abstract Form Has To Have

I Read Somewhere That Rubens Said Students Should Not Draw From Life, But Draw From All The Great Classic Casts. Then You Really Get The Measure Of Them, You Really Know What To Do. And Then, Put In Your Own Dimples. Isn't That Marvelous!

Content Is A Glimpse Of Something, An Encounter Like A Flash. It's Very Tiny - Very Tiny. Content.

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.

The Past Does Not Influence Me; I Influence It.

In Art One Idea Is As Good As Another.