Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only
Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.
I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.
I think of painting as possessed by a structure. . . but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.
I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.