The artistโs memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-itโs your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is youโre reinventing; thatโs a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.
Hilton AlsI think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.
Hilton AlsI'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.
Hilton Als