It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.