I've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
The more I paint the more I like everything.
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.