Morris Louis (1912-1962)

"The fabric, being soaked in paint rather than merely covered by it, becomes paint in itself, color in itself, like dyed cloth: the threadedness and wovenness are in the color The effect conveys a sense not only of color as somehow disembodied, and therefore more purely optical, but also of color as a thing that opens and expands the picture plane" (Clement Greenberg as quoted in J. Elderfield, Morris Louis, exh. cat, New York, p. 32).