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William Baziotes - From the Artists category:
One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Beginning category:
One may start with a few color areas on the canvas; another with a myriad of lines, another with a profusion of colors... Once I sense the suggestion I begin to paint intuitively. The suggestion then becomes a phantom that must be caught and made real. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Collaboration category:
There was an unconscious collaboration between artists. Whether you agreed or disagreed was of no consequence... What does happen when artists meet is that we are able to see more clearly the unfolding of character as time goes on. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Emotion category:
Today it's possible to paint one canvas with the calmness of an ancient Greek and the next with the anxiety of a Van Gogh. Either of these emotions, and any in between, is valid to me... (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Evolution category:
Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Experience category:
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Finishing category:
In talking about the necessity to finish a thing, we said American painters finish a thing that looks unfinished, and the French, they finish it. I have seen Matisses that were more unfinished and yet more finished than any American painters. Matisse was obviously in a terrific emotion at the time and he was more unfinished than finished. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Finishing category:
I consider my painting finished when my eye goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Inspiration category:
To be inspired. That is the thing. / to be possessed; to be bewitched. / To be obsessed. That is the thing. / To be inspired. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Mirrors category:
I work on many canvases at once. In the morning I line them up against the wall of my studio. Some speak, some do not. They are my mirrors. They tell me what I am like at that moment. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Mysteries category:
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Nature category:
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Poetry category:
Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Risk category:
This particular time has gotten to a point where the artist feels like a gambler. He does something on the canvas and takes a chance in the hope that something important will be revealed. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Subject category:
As for the subject matter in my painting... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Theory category:
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting. (William Baziotes)
William Baziotes - From the Titles category:
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. (William Baziotes)
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