In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use different kinds of materials because I was looking for some kind of new way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings, in images that already exist, in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.&raqu
In the film Schnabel remarks: «I started to use different kinds of materials
because I was looking for some kind of new
way to paint... working with things that already exist affords you associations that are beyond your invention... I see opportunities everywhere as paintings,
in images that already exist, in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.&raqu
in images that already exist,
in surfaces that will repsond to paint a certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with reacting rather than acting.&raqu
in surfaces that will repsond to paint a
certain way, or it might come from an accident... I realized a picture could be the architecture of a painting... so I would select thigns that already had pictures - images of things impregnated on them - and then I could treat them as a blank canvas... let them inform what I was doing and make me
react to what was there and come out with a hybrid painting... it has a much to do with
reacting rather than acting.»