At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.
I draw plays every day.
Art is a way of life.
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album.
My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do a great deal of tropes. This past decade has seen a new term, "meme," which is exactly what I'm studying.
That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.
If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
I think of me being a painter eventually.
Art is very subjective and having to put numbers on it seems counterintuitive.
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down.
When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
I see films in theaters, and I enjoy films. I enjoy the art of storytelling, and the different ways to tell them.
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
