“I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.” PeopleKnowsWantPiecesChildhoodPaintingIntellectualMarkLandscapeAbstractBrushes Author:Jenny Saville
“I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.” BitsChildhoodPaintingArtisticMusic Love Author:Sean Scully
“There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.” LittlesArtArtistInterestChildhoodPaintingBirdSouthRaisedLocalsMuseumsMinorsCarolinaSouth CarolinaCharlestonCharleston South Carolina Author:Jasper Johns
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.” YearsEndsHappenedChildhoodPaintingTypeConsciousPatternsMechanismCopyingYale Author:Kehinde Wiley