Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.