“The waste of the world becomes my art.” Kurt Schwitters
“I... ironed out all the paint rags... beautiful... I glued them down.”
Patricia Douthwaite
“Robert Rauschenberg literally began to fill the gap between art and life.”
Barbara Rose
“States of order... organic intensity... energy and motion made visible... memories arrested in space.” Jackson Pollock
“I am just trying to find a way to make a picture.” Jasper Johns
“Scientists say that there is no such thing as empty space.
It’s all loaded with life... teeming with electrical energy, potential sights
and sounds, spores, seeds and God knows what all.” Mark Tobey
“Giacometti elongates his figures... to render what he sees,
to make a likeness.” Jacques Dupin
“All grey. Shades of grey (pause)
The colour grey if you wish, shades of the colour grey.”
Samuel Beckett
“I suppose a painting is something like a musical score,
which people play back to themselves.” John Wells
“My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent.”
Agnes Martin
“I work with very few elements... I build with primitive materials.”
Arvo Part
“Restraint and limitation reveals the master.” Ancient Chinese saying