The Role Of The Painter . .

Art Has Got Nothing To Do With Taste.

I Have Never Seen A Beautiful Painting Of A Beautiful Woman. But You Can Take An Ugly Woman And Make A Beautiful Painting Of Her. It Is The Painting Itself That Should Be Beautiful.

A Series Of Powers Are At Work Within The Great Stream Of Expressionism Who Have No Outward Similarity To One Another But A Common Direction Of Thrust, Namely The Intention To Give Expression To Things Of The Psyche [seelisches] Through Form Alone.

Who Made Art History? Not The Most Reasonable People. The Mad Men Did. If Painting Is The Mirror Of A Time, It Must Be Mad To Have A True Image Of What That Time Is. To One Madness We Oppose Another Madness.

Painting Is Neither Decorative Amusement, Nor The Plastic Invention Of Felt Reality; It Must Be Every Time: Invention, Discovery, Revelation.