Will Cotton
Will Cotton
Will Cottonis an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
art communication goal
The goal of art-making in general is communication.
desire firsts painting
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
powerful smell stronger
Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.
sweet people feelings
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
expectations atmosphere gallery
In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.
tired artist
As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.
thinking class america
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.
nice mean thinking
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.
dependent exercise gain independence people standing tend trainer unless whenever wherever work
You also gain the independence to work out wherever and whenever you want. People who are dependent on a trainer tend not to exercise unless their trainer is standing right there.
available consumers convenient digital edge leading shows technology trying tv
We are trying to be on the leading edge of utilizing digital technology to make our TV shows available to consumers in as convenient of a way as we can.
classic dropping excited forward hopefully joining kid loads looking music playing radio shows talking voice
I'm so excited about joining Radio 1, ... When I was a kid I did the classic thing of taping shows off the radio and dropping my own voice in - hopefully this show will be better than that! Most of all, I'm looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about music and playing loads of music.
excited forward joining loads looking music playing radio talking
I'm so excited about joining Radio 1. I'm looking forward to talking about music, obsessing about music and playing loads of music.
likes wife work
We've been going back and forth. My wife likes something with 'laser' in it. Laser Trail? Laser Corridor? We have to work on it.
seeing
We are not seeing cancellations, but we are not seeing new bookings either,