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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

My paintings are rubbish.