A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'
I like the transience of Klimt paintings.
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
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