You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.
I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.
Each painting, I feel like I kind of might have gotten something. If I feel like I totally got it, there's probably something wrong and it's not finished. And if I really feel like I understand it then I'm done with these paintings and I'll have to do something else.
There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.
The landscape is one of the kinds that I think, at least this body of work is the least selfish of the stuff that I've done. It's all selfish. It is making images of things that I want to see, that turn me on, that make me happy, that satisfy me.
I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.
Every show I've done, I've just wanted to understand something of this weird life that I woke up in. I've never woken up in anyone else's life, so I've got to understand this one. The only skill I was given is this painting.
. . . Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!
I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.
Keep growing. Stay awake. Beware of gurus. Keep a low overhead.