I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.
One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.
One of the greatest thing about fashion is that it's a literal expression of your mood. Or it can be the opposite. You can feel bold and outgoing and wear something like that or wear all black and feel like you can hide a bit. It's expressionism. I really love that.
Clothing, hair and make-up are just reflective of how I am feeling at any given moment and that varies from day to day.
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!
