A lot of the acting students would do modeling in the arts school, so there were some gorgeous girls, but the clichรฉ in our school was to get either the really emaciated person or the really obese person - which is stupid.
John CurrinI've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.
John CurrinI think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you.
John CurrinWhen I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
John Currin