A lot of people are using the Church, but not a lot of people are loving the Church.
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit. . . What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.
I'm not pro-life. I'm very emphatically pro-choice.
People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission - the value of people and how to truly appreciate them.
It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling
If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.