I've never let the criticism deter me.
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.
There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.
Finishing is torture. . . There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.
I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.
Life is a series of sudden disappearances, leave-takings without the proper goodbyes.
I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.