The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.