Her husband, he's German you know. When her husband came to me, I said, 'John, you don't mind me painting your wife.' And he said, 'No, that's fine, just don't paint her nude. |
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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. |
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. |
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it ... I always want to see the third dimension of something ... I want to come alive with the object. |
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. |
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. |
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. |