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Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

We look at the Mona Lisa and say we're going to do our version of the Mona Lisa. We mirror it. But exaptation would say that painting the Mona Lisa would lead to a whole new place... Bugs Bunny.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.