MICKALENE THOMAS
I am so grateful that I get to spend my time pursuing a career that is thoroughly rewarding on so many levels that I really don’t know what else could offer this kind of satisfaction in my life.
I am so grateful that I get to spend my time pursuing a career that is thoroughly rewarding on so many levels that I really don’t know what else could offer this kind of satisfaction in my life.
Sometimes we like to pretend that it doesn’t matter (usually after a lukewarm review!), but of course you want others to share your enthusiasm for your subject and to feel that you’ve presented it in a beautiful, intelligent, enlightening way.
Sometimes a subject will want to assume the stance or behavior of figures in works of art, such as those by Schiele, John Singer Sargent, or whoever. Sometimes with younger subjects, Balthus comes to my mind in the quality of pensiveness or the beautiful awkwardness embodied in a person