I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.
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.
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.
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