My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.
I feel blessed every day when I'm working on these paintings... the first artist to ever go to another world and try to tell stories that people care about.
I believe that 100, 200, 300 years from now, all these paintings will be around because they're the first paintings of humans doing things off this Earth.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.
I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.