Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
The negative is just as important as the positive.
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.
In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.
Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.
Chicago - it's a mini-New York.
Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.