I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
Integrity is never painless.
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of human experience, then what we seem to intuitively know to be true is entirely backwards. For if this is the case, then it must be the despicable tyrant, free of any moral values, and not the selfless compassionate who sacrifices himself for the good of mankind that is truly the one most deserving of our reverence and emulation.
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated. '