I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid… — John Currin Copy Share Image
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I… — John Currin Copy Share Image
It wasn't really until after I got out of art school that I realized that I'd been doing that sort of for… — John Currin Copy Share Image
A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid… — John Currin Copy Share Image
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent… — 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
