“The painter is concerned with putting the paint on the surface and making the paint into an image. But I approach painting in a different way. I approach painting beginning with the material. The traditional painter would say that the canvas was empty, and they would put the paint on it and make an image with the paint. When I approach a painting, I say the surface that I'm using, whether it's canvas or whatever it is, isn't empty; it's something in itself. It's up to the paint to clarify it, in as sense. And also to make an image, yes. But to make the surface or the structure something to see.”
-Robert Ryman
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