The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion Quotes

“Desert which is immense and from above light brown or red vast rivulets of sand with no human life. As the only land. What land is. Running alongside it and then forward is the deep blue Red Sea — with the edges of the land in very light turquoise blue rim, it is the rim. A very beautiful rim. The people are in the air. There are patches of sand in, as it goes in, the endless sea, the very light turquoise rimmed. So it could be sky, which has white rainless clouds. In the sky or it could be in the sea.

Whatever is darker as shadows could be just in the air. Only in the air. Sand patches, rimmed or with the very light blue shallower sea. But only if one's there.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“An event is not in the person.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“There is no relation between using the mind — as one does, in repairing shoes, and seeing it.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“The mind knows what it is doing and meets itself.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“Experience itself is convention and we are outside of experience.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“What is the separation between information and the unfolding of phenomena?”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“Flatness was construed as (was made to be) a barrier put up against the viewer's normal wish to enter a picture and dream, to make it be a space apart from life in which the mind would be free to make its own connections.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy

“Trying to learn anything in any circumstances — is caring what people think, and so is worth nothing.”
― Leslie Scalapino, The Return of Painting, the Pearl, and Orion: A Trilogy