I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.
I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.
I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.
I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.
While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.