I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.
I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.
There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.