I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them, and I really liked having them around.
I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.
I like to paint nudes mostly.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
I've done nudity. I'm an exhibitionist. It doesn't matter.
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.