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.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.