>> Well I do teach, and I do a students who want to be artists and I stress drawing.
Drawing is so very important, no matter what one does.
If you know the artist Dan Fladen, who was the artist who made his fame
by using beyond tools light, he did, he kept sketch books of amazing drawings.
So I think drawing is, it's not only a basis for a painting but it's a way of understanding.
That's us, I tell young people that they should draw.
I tell them they should work hard and I try
to communicate what Malcolm Gladwell, the writer talks about.
He talked about the ten thousand hour theory.
That if you're going to be really good
at something the more time you put in the better you get.
And I see that with myself.
I rarely use the word talent.
Because a lot of people I went to school with were talented.
Never learned, though when they hit a wall, how to keep going.
And I really think if you're going to be an artist, especially in a culture
like ours, that, it's not really receptive.
I was lucky that I rammed them down here and [inaudible]
and I got whole family who kind of get me and I fit in.