All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!
If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
I look at the character of the exhibition and I treat it as I would a painting or an installation. When I did the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy, I did it exactly as I would when making a new work.
I held out the painting of the cat and the snake. “It’s a cat and a snake,” Thoth said. Thank you, god of wisdom. You placed it for us to find, didn’t you? You’re trying to give us some sort of clue. ” “Who, me?” Just kill him, Horus said. Shut up, I said. At least kill the guitar.
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here. . . maybe add some blue over here. ' You can sit back and look at the painting.
If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.
Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.
Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
My paintings are rubbish.
Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.