It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.
A great painting is a great painting.
Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.
I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.