One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
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.
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.