People’s love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal. Will Cotton Read Quote
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. Will Cotton Read Quote
In a gallery, there’s an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. Will Cotton Read Quote
In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don’t think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies. Will Cotton Read Quote
There’s something of a painting of a woman that represents all women – and by extension, all of humanity – that I just find very exciting. It’s a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. Will Cotton Read Quote
