You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.
I used to jokingly say, "I don't teach art. I'm an art doctor. " Students come to me and say, "My art's sick," and we help them make it well.
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality. ' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.
The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
The United States will not be in Afghanistan forever.
I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.