I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.
The substance of painting is light.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.