I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
From Gerhard Richter
I am ridiculously old-fashioned.
Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.
I believe in painting and I believe in eating too. What can we do? We have to eat, we have to paint, we have to live. Of course, there are different ways to survive. But it's my best option.
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.
Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
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