Painting, n. : The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
Painting, I think it's like jazz.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor. . . It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.
I trained as a painter, and I still love painting, but eventually I became aware that the physical aspect of painting didn't really suit me. I didn't enjoy working in the medium. It's very messy. I prefer to have it clean, with a nice computer.
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.