Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.
An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.
I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.
For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.