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I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.