Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head. Topics: Family |
It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint. |
I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with. |
If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work. |
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with. |
A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you. |
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque. |
Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. Topics: Show Business |
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever. |
You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is. |
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. |
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. |
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. |
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing. |
Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance. |
You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good. |
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders. |
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. |
To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy. |
I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school. |