A brilliant insight about painting

Don Feasel, my painting teacher coined a brilliant bonmot the other day in class. And it really totally nails it. He said:

"The great thing about abstraction is that you get four chances"

Which is just sooo true. What this is about is that purely abstract pieces typically can be turned around and look often very different. Typically one orientation of the piece is just right, but sometimes more than one orientation works well. And if one doesn't work, well, rotate the piece and look if that works. It often does :) When you work in abstract art you are of course aware of that, but it has seldom be said better than this...