I was showing others your work online, and they couldn’t believe they were paintings, not photos.
For some people, it’s the subject that startles them. … It’s usually when I have a reaction, it’s from young painters. They write to me, “How do you do it?” And this is something, unfortunately, I care the least [about], because I was never interested in technique, to be honest. So even though my work needs a lot of technique, I just developed whatever I needed … but I have a problem if artists talk about technique all the time. It’s a dead-end street.
The important thing is what is it that comes out of it? Is it something that has power and intensity? …