I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
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.
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.
Art does not explain.