David Salle Quotes About Painting

• Desde que empecé a pintar, he intentado trasladar a la pintura la fluidez y la sorpresa de la conexión de imágenes, la simultaneidad del montaje cinematográfico.

  David Salle

  Connections, Fluidity, Painting

  Interview with Robert Rosenblum, www.lehmannmaupin.com.

• If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, whether we are musicians or not. Painting's no different. Taking pleasure in projecting oneself into the painting is the act of looking. That's what looking is.

  David Salle

  Musician, Different, Painting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

  David Salle

  Kids, Color, Drawing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20 or 100. One of the things a painting does is to make the room look better. It improves the wall that it's on. Which is much harder than it looks. And that's a good thing. And if one engages with a painting on that level, that's fine, that's great. After some time, familiarity, the other things that a painting does, the other layers, they just start to make themselves felt.

  David Salle

  Arte, Pared, Significado

  Source: www.pbs.org

• No sabía nada de arte conceptual cuando me fui de Kansas. Fui a Cal Arts para ser pintor, pero las cosas emocionantes estaban sucediendo en otros lugares, así que me tomé unas vacaciones de la pintura durante unos años.

  David Salle

  Art, Holiday, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of being in the world that painting brings to us, that painters bring to the task that we absorb and are able to be in dialogue with. That's something that's part of us.

  David Salle

  People, World, Painting

  Source: www.pbs.org

• As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

  David Salle

  Running, Demand, Addresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.

  David Salle

  New York, Years, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that applies to any painted surface. So if you're engaging in paintings, this is the language that one has to learn and is obliged to speak. I was very fortunate that I learned this language when I was a kid before I went to California, where I learned the language of attitude. Somehow the two things began to coexist.

  David Salle

  Attitude, Kids, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Me esfuerzo mucho por encontrar la expresión adecuada para algo, que puede ser como encontrar la imagen adecuada: elegir no sólo las palabras adecuadas, sino hasta el número de líneas correcto. Recuerdo haber estado una vez en Maine, en el Colby College, con Alex Katz. Allí hay cientos de sus obras. Había un cuadro de una sola gaviota sobre un cielo azul. Yo lo estaba admirando y Alex dijo: "45 pinceladas exactas".

  David Salle

  Hard Work, College, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Lo que la mayoría de las pinturas hacen es darte un camino para que tu ojo se mueva alrededor. La pintura en realidad le dice a tu ojo, ve aquí, ahora ve aquí, ahora ve aquí, ve aquí. Así que todo lo que tienes que hacer es mirarlo, darle unos segundos, y tu ojo comenzará a moverse a través de la pintura.

  David Salle

  Moving, Eye, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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