It is reprinted by kind permission of the gallery. An instant of Actuality. Above all else, a drawing by Rembrandt or Bonnard, or Michelangelo or Sesshu has Energy. Drawing for me has always involved two aspects, sometimes separate, usually inter-related. The first is the sheer sensuous pleasure of drawing, something shared with virtually all other painters.
Drawing is simple.
Of course it always returns because it is so simple. Nearly all the great visual discoveries could be shown with a pencil. Probably drawing is as near to instinct as can be found in art. Drawing is a way of remembering. It is a way of reliving.