I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on.
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
