Painting and writing are solitary arts.
My wife watches me like a hawk.
I'm into emulation, not imitation.
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill.
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
I like to paint nudes mostly.
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.
Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.
To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted to start with the blue, and that was the water. One drawing shows the trees under water. I was really moved.
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
Nay, Nay! Try thou not. But do thou or do thou not, For there is no "try.
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
