Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
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.