Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord, they were born on the canvas; that is why it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.


'interview with John Richardson' (1957)


Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord, they ...

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord, they ...

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord, they ...

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord, they ...