The ethics of art are terrifying because real art by increasing our knowledge of ourselves increases in exactly the same proportion the ethical commitment. X magazine (1959)
In the remote purity of his solitariness, where the work of art is made, the artist is supremely the anti-social creature. X magazine (1959)
For even the painter himself cannot be fully aware of the way in which the picture gets made: there is a wide area of the unpredictable in the act of pushing paint about in the definition of an image. X magazine (1959)
The interesting thing is what happens in the specific picture: its precision in terms of the sensations it produces — the illusion it creates and the effect of this illusion on the psychology opposed to it. X magazine (1959)