I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody...… — John Currin Copy Share Image
A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the cliché in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which… — John Currin Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham… — John Currin Copy Share Image
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do. — John Currin Copy Share Image
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of… — John Currin Copy Share Image
There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are. — John Currin Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I suppose the good artists, the righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist has this idea that everybody has to… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd… — John Currin Copy Share Image
