I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.
Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
I think art can reflect tragedy.
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.