“So the way I went, finally, is I'd take a canvas, a big canvas, and just load the goddamn thing helter-skelter, every goddamn color I could throw out and was available, I put it on with a knife and with a tube, squeezing it and spreading it and brushing it and everything until I had an absolute chaos on it. And this is the formal, philosophical way...where you bring order out of chaos. Right? I mean, first of all, I established chaos on my own canvas and then...I would look at the canvas sometimes for 40 minutes or an hour and all of a sudden I'd see something and I'd go up there and, BANG, I would go into it and then I'd retire to that great big old chair which was in that picture and sit down there and I'd get on the chair and I'd start another one and make another big slash. Pretty soon I would establish a certain order, and that's how my pictures were all done.”
John Saccaro on his artistic process. Excerpted from an oral history interview held in the Archives of American Art.
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