“Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.”
“If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso”
“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”
“The work of memory collapses time.”
“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death. Thus, the work of the painter is nobler than that of nature, its mistress.”
“Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.”