Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
Let's not forget, art can sell. You ain't gotta front all the time on your records.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.