Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is an English artist now living in the United States. He is best known as a photorealist.
Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.
The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.
You can looking at that glass of water, not as a glass of water, but as paint on a two-dimensional surface. It's not just a question of looking, but of doing, in relation to this, in relation to that, in relation to the space between things.
Make friends with your unconscious life. That's a great source of energy.
Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.
The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.
The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.
I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.
The paintings have a lot to do with the idea of seeing and doing, and the relationship between your hand and your eye, and the object.
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was a great way to get girlfriends.