“We have a tremendous range of abstract feelings. We don’t attend to them.” Agnes Martin - TateShots
“Why as an artist would you want to explain yourself? Painting is so visual that it is very difficult to say things that don’t compromise it.” Tomma Abts (Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World. 2008, p122)
“His (Alberto Burri's) own turn towards abstraction in 1947 was linked to the realisation that a picture’s ostensible subject could actually get in the way of understanding what it contained.” (Michael Bird: Sandra Blow, p40)
"(George) McDonald proposes that children are much more comfortable with unsettled meanings than their adult counterparts, to keep contraries in suspension without feeling compelled to come up with a single right answer."
(Introduction to The Complete Fairy Tales, p ix – x)
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint" Edward Hopper article.
“Why as an artist would you want to explain yourself? Painting is so visual that it is very difficult to say things that don’t compromise it.” Tomma Abts (Sarah Thornton: Seven Days in the Art World. 2008, p122)
“His (Alberto Burri's) own turn towards abstraction in 1947 was linked to the realisation that a picture’s ostensible subject could actually get in the way of understanding what it contained.” (Michael Bird: Sandra Blow, p40)
"(George) McDonald proposes that children are much more comfortable with unsettled meanings than their adult counterparts, to keep contraries in suspension without feeling compelled to come up with a single right answer."
(Introduction to The Complete Fairy Tales, p ix – x)
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint" Edward Hopper article.