For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
Painting is a hobby for me.
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
For me, art has to have two things to really blow me away: a strong concept and drama.
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.