“The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.” ArtMatterLightHouseExistenceTreeSubjectsOughtMountainPaintPhilosopherAbstractTowersAbstractionSubject MatterSpotlight Author:Willem de Kooning
