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Quotes by Artist


"Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't."


"How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?"

"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."


"I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them."
Care,

"Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch."


"The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality."

"Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes."


"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."

"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good."

"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."

"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."


"I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens."


"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul."

"The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

"But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well."


"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."

"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."


"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."


"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."

"He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them."

"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."

"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."

"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."


"It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
Will,
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