Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is a hobby for me.
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
Anyone who's grown up or lived on the Jersey Shore knows the place is unique.
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.
When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
I hate painting.
I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.