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To the best of my honest knowledge, this one life is all we get. And for me, that's exactly enough. So if I'm going to make the most of my little piece of this action, what I have to do is pay attention to what moves me. For a lot of artists, what moves them is the landscape. For some, it's flowers, or animals, or the pulse of the city. For others, it's some kind of cerebral concoction that I don't get, and which bores me when I do try to get it. For me, it's the figure. The gestures of hands, the contours of graceful movement in a dancer, the ripple of muscle in a strong young man, the textures of hair, the shadows on a cheek, are things I can never get my fill of studying, trying to understand, trying to render on paper or canvas. We are beautiful. And when I paint or draw the figure, it's always the figure in nature, as a part of it, at home in it, dancing with it, giving it meaning in an infinite variety of ways. And there you have it.
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