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“I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.”

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You have to find what your temperament is like and live around it. I find I work really well off the top of my…

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If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window…

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You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

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I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you…

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Paint faster than you can think.

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Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

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I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they…

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Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps.…

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What makes everything one is the style.

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Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

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The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style.…

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Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all closed drawings.…

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Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

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