I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.