St. Lucia Quotes

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.