And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.
I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.
Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human intere...
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
For me, art is always a kind of theater.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely.
Art helped give me confidence.
My painting does not come from the easel.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
