"Often when you're in the process of realizing an image, it's going somewhere else. If that tangent starts going off in a place that feels more exciting, that's what I go with."
"Stacked Color Drawing #1" (1971)
"Stacked Color Drawing #1," 1971
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 11 3/4 x 9 inches
Collection Angela Westwater, New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 11 3/4 x 9 inches
Collection Angela Westwater, New York
Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York
"Before I went to kindergarten I really wanted to be an artist. Not that I knew what being an artist was, but on the first day of kindergarten the teacher handed out the paper and the colored crayons. And I just connected in my brain that this was the first day of my life, and that going to school was the start of everything that was important to me. I remember the drawing to this moment. I took a pencil and I just made this horizon line, and then I took the colored pencils and I made a rainbow there. And that was my drawing."
- Richard Tuttle
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