A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
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.
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.