Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.