Jacques Hnizdovsky

“The woodcuts of Jacques Hnizdovsky represent some of the freshest and most original printmaking in American graphic arts of the past thirty years”

“Although I made radical attempts to break away from my former habits in printmaking, I was still not completely liberated from my first and strongest influence. Despite the highly simplified and almost abstractly patternlike approach of my new experiments, I was still a slave to the simple frame. My prints still had a border even if I constantly asked why they should. It is an irony and a cause for the artist to be humble that he needs so much time and so much effort, as I needed, to liberate himself from the tiny frame. Such is the power of habit.”

“I regarded myself as an explorer, and the explorer has no use for smoothly paved roads. He needs the rough terrain of the wilderness.”

“subject creates style; nature suggests style.”