Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.
I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.