Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.
I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease.
Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.
It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
