I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2. 5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.
What you see is what you see.
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.
You see what you know!
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. I can't stress enough how important it is, if you are interested at all in painting, to look and to look a great deal at painting. There is no other way to find out about painting.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
Temptation to behave is terrible.