I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.
That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
I start listening to something, or I'm seeing somebody a lot or seeing their art. And then I just really want to make a picture of them.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
