It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.'