When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.
I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
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.
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.