Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.
The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.
I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality. ' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure.
London was a really multi-racial city. . . It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.
Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.
You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink. ' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.