If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood.
Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.
Sculpture occupies real space like we do. . . you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.
Not to win is guttering.
There's a responsibility to the story, but there's also the sense of fun you have. When everybody else leaves, you get to continue to create. For me, there's no other way! I really like creating from the ground up.
I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.
I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.