Aug
30th
Mon
30th
Sometimes it seems
as if I just paint one painting,
from a white canvas
through an experience of colors and lines
and then back to white again.
Yet always enriched, nothing is ever lost,
everything that is achieved,
even though it does not appear to be present, remains.
And some of my canvases are just this:
a final experience of white on white,
having traveled through and through,
like an area of ground wherein
much dancing has occurred.
as if I just paint one painting,
from a white canvas
through an experience of colors and lines
and then back to white again.
Yet always enriched, nothing is ever lost,
everything that is achieved,
even though it does not appear to be present, remains.
And some of my canvases are just this:
a final experience of white on white,
having traveled through and through,
like an area of ground wherein
much dancing has occurred.
— Richard Pousette-Dart,
describing his white paintings
describing his white paintings
