“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.” MayHas BeensAttentionOne ThingLateOneselfDistractionCapitalistRepetitionFavour Author:Jan Peacock
“There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.” IfsArtistWonderfulDown AndPeculiarSlidesUp To YouUps & DownsGood ArtGood Artist Author:Milton Resnick
“It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?” MenFallBitsBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Milton Resnick
“As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.” LongChangeConstantPaintDon't Change Author:Milton Resnick
“You have to become complete in some way; a universe - a complete thing in yourself - in order to reach across and breathe some unity onto this thing you're faced with. If you intentionally avoid that unity that is within yourself then you will avoid unity in your work.” IfsWayOrderUniverseUnityBreathe Author:Milton Resnick
“If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.” IfsWantKindPersonsMadeCultureUnityArrangements Author:Milton Resnick
“It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasMatterFactsHappensHatePaintingGeniusCriticsIrrelevantGalleryMatter Of Fact Author:Milton Resnick
“As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.” ArtWholeCulturePositionPaint Author:Milton Resnick
“Your culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.” MindKindStatesOrderCultureDemandCrisisUnityState Of MindCan NotExpectancy Author:Milton Resnick
“The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.” SoulDangerImpactPaint Author:Milton Resnick