Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading..

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract..

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of ….

The negative is just as important as the positive..