It is not the freedom of choice

Take Franz Kline. There is no "plastic experience." We don't stand back and behold the "painting." There is no "painting" in the ordinary sense, just as there is no "painting," for that matter, in Piero della Francesca or Rembrandt. There is nothing but the integrity of the creative act. Any detail of the work is sufficient to establish this. The fact that these details accumulate and make what is known as a work of art proves nothing. What else should an artist do with his time?

Feldman, Essays 78