15. the starting point of creation
"In his book about Francis Bacon, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze writes about 'the painting before painting.' There is no such thing as an empty canvas, something is always already there—historical ways of painting, contemporary ways of painting, your own way of painting, clichés, the culture’s entire repertoire of motifs and methods. If you are going to paint a man or a chair in front of you, you have to force your way through the…