I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.
I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.
When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to think about more than themselves.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.
Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
