Your Ego Can Become An Obstacle To

You Know How You Feel Somebody Looking At You, And You Turn, And Somebody Actually Is? It's The Same At An Art Gallery. You're Looking At One Portrait, Turn Around, And There Is A Work Of Art Directly Behind You. Because It's All Energy. Every Single Thing Has Energy.

Do You Know What's Most Interesting? Working With The Very Strong Restrictions Of The Institution. In The Renaissance, The Aristocrats Would Order Paintings From The Artist. They Would Order The Crucifixion Of Jesus. The Restrictions Were Amazing. Jesus Had To Be In The Middle, Three Apostles On The Left, Four Apostles On The Right - And Still You Had Masterpieces. It's Really Interesting To Work Within Restriction, And See What You Can Do With Restriction.

If You See A Renaissance Body, This Is Completely Ugly In This Time. Everybody Has To Be Skinny. But The Renaissance Body With Incredible Flow Of The Meat Everywhere, It Was Beauty.

In Every Ancient Culture, There Are Rituals To Mortify The Body As A Way Of Understanding That The Energy Of The Soul Is Indestructible.

People Ask Why There Are So Few Female Artists Who Succeed. It's Because Women Are Not Ready To Sacrifice As Much As Men. Women Want A Man, They Want A Family, They Want To Have Children, They Want To Be Loved, And To Be An Artist. And They Can't; It's Impossible.