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One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

William Baziotes
One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

William Baziotes
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting. What happens on the canvas is unpredictable and surprising to me.

William Baziotes
To be inspired. That is the thing.
to be possessed; to be bewitched.
To be obsessed. That is the thing.
To be inspired.

William Baziotes
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.... the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

William Baziotes
As for the subject matter in my painting.... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

William Baziotes
It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

William Baziotes
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

William Baziotes
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

William Baziotes
The emphasis on flora, fauna, and beings makes the exhibit a most intriguing and artistic one for it brings forth those strange memories and psychic feelings that mystify and fascinate all of us.

William Baziotes