As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.