When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.
I've loved art for more than 30 years.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.