It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.
I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and tomorrow you will do what you did today. Eventually you will get somewhere.
