„Bill Traylor saw what he looked at. From 1939 to 1942 he made over 2000 paintings and drawings, either from memory or current observation. ‚I missed plowing so bad today, I just had to draw it,‘ he once said, and from the placement of his images on the page, each always creating a unique negative space with great balance, you could tell he knew the contour of the land he had worked so hard. In three years he created a most sophisticated chronicle, accurately describing his very being.“
[James Benning über Bill Traylor und Andy Warhol, über das Hingucken und die Zeit, im Blog des wexner center for the arts; via girish]