When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.