Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.