“"Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface'" (Arp). Only love — for painting, in this instance — is able to cover the fearful void.”

—  Hans Hofmann

Robert Motherwell, partly quoting Jean Arp, in Motherwell & black (1981) p. 94 -->
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