If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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