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" Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. "

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" When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily. "

" The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. "

" I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art. "

" I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. "

" My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs. "

" Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. "

" If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up. "

" My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic. "

" Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape. "

" It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be. "

" My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. "

" All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. "

" So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category. "