Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but. . . my portrait is a culmination of elements. . . a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me. ' It's love for no reason, love without an object.