Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
There was a reviewer a while back who wrote
that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or end.
He didn’t mean it as a compliment,
but it was.
Jackson Pollock
HOROWITZ
HOROWITZ–detail
If you could say it in words
there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

SPOKEN
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing
does the painter do good things.
Degas
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