It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.
Milton ResnickAs 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.
Milton ResnickThe act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.
Milton ResnickYou have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.
Milton ResnickPulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!
Milton ResnickYour culture demands that you bring some kind of crisis to your work and therefore you can not bring any unity to it. In order to bring crisis into your work you have to bring it to a state of expectancy. In other words you have to leave your work in the state of mind of being a question.
Milton Resnick