Art Process Quotes

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

All my work begins with drawings.

The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

I paint with my back to the world

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

I don't even think about maintaining a relevance. I just think about what do I want to paint, what am I gonna do now, what am I gonna do later.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.