Artist Tom Ferrara, former assistant to famed painter Willem De Kooning talks "in-studio" for MOMA (inside/out). Many times the first thing he would say about the painting he was working on was, “It reminds me of…” and it could be anything. He said, “you have to change to stay the same” and it was the way he described the challenge of keeping the life in his art. But change requires work and a lot of risk-taking. Free association was a big part of what his art was about. All he needed was the suggestion of form and his imagination would take off.
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