Quotes by Milton Resnick

Milton Resnick

About three years went by and I had become exhausted – really at the end of my rope almost – and I thought I couldn’t last much longer… and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.

Giving

Three

Years

As long as you can change paint, you don’t change. For you to change – for paint to do something to you – paint must stay constant.

Change

Long

Paint

As soon as you see what you’re looking at you have a name for it. You don’t see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

Names

Sight

Thinking

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

Art

Culture

Paint

Each of us has a universal within us. There’s always that making of parts – but it doesn’t touch the universal within you.

Universal

Universe

Within You

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what you saw; it wasn’t knowledge. You were being at one with something eternal; something outside of yourself. And no matter how many fake things have been brought in to suit other conditions… That is still true.

Art

Fake

People

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

Artist

Followers

Individuality

I painted myself out of my painting.

Painting

Revelations

I’d fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I’d lose it. I’d get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

Morning

Sleep

Tired

If there’s no unity in your work, then you’ve deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don’t want that unity in your work. You’ve made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.

Culture

Unity

Want

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Artist

Bottom

Canvas

Change

Culture

Dark

Failure

Fake

Fall

Fear

Followers

Giving

Hate

Ideas

Impact

Important

Individuality

Long

Memories

Men

Mind

Missing

Moisture

Moments

Morning

Museums

Names

Order

Pain

Paint

Painting

Panic

Peculiar

People

Play

Purpose

Revelations

Sight

Sleep

Soul

Space

Technique

That Moment

Thinking

Three

Tired

Unity

Universal

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Quotes by Milton Resnick

Milton Resnick

As long as you can change paint, you don’t change. For you to change – for paint to do something to you – paint must stay constant.

As soon as you see what you’re looking at you have a name for it. You don’t see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

Each of us has a universal within us. There’s always that making of parts – but it doesn’t touch the universal within you.

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

I painted myself out of my painting.

I’d fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I’d lose it. I’d get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.

If there’s no unity in your work, then you’ve deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don’t want that unity in your work. You’ve made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.

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