Life whispers to you all the time. . . from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.
Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style. I felt with my painting, the style really is the content. The style holds everything together.
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing. . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.
Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.