And that Newman wasn’t, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
Design has to work. Art does not.
It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist’s artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.
If someone says it’s art, it’s art.
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
Color, to continue had to occur in space.
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
In terms of existing, everything is equal.
Well, there’s a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.
But I think that’s a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
The older painting – well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it’s of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.