我
I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
I’m not trying to be different. To me, it’s the only way I know how to paint.
The human figure is the most important thing to me.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.
The world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles, that they become commonplace and we forget.
I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.
To me, painting is not about color at all; I’m interested in the quality of light.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
Reality is not what we see, but what we discover through art.
I am not a modern artist, I am a timeless artist.
The more I work, the more I see things differently.
"My paintings are my children, each with its own soul."
I don't want to paint people who are just sitting there like models. I want to paint the actual person.
The only thing I'm interested in is the human animal and what it's like.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
I want the painting to be flesh, to have the same kind of life as the sitter.
I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."
"I work very slowly. It's a process of building up layers and adjusting until it feels right."