I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.
The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.
I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.