Painter Harold Ancart's Two Favorite Cities: New York and New York

EMILIEN CRESPO: How did you get to painting, or how did painting get to you?

HAROLD ANCART: I’ve always drawn and I’ve always made watercolors. It’s something I started doing as a kid in elementary school and I kept on doing it in primary school, where you’re actually not supposed to do that. You’re supposed to focus on mathematics and other work. But to me, painting and drawing were always a means of transportation. It would allow me to escape the boredom of being at school, and having to listen to and do things that I was not necessarily interested in.

I tried political science. It was, obviously, not for me. I think after a few weeks at university I dropped out, and then did nothing for a while, which was terrifying. I was drinking beers, smoking weed, playing pool, or billiards with friends who were not very interested in studying either. That was not a very fulfilling time of my life. And then I started thinking that there were not so many things I was naturally gifted at, but painting was one of them, so I went to art school.

I always have an idea of what I’m going to make, or what I want to make. But I try to keep this idea as vague as possible so that I can focus on what I am doing while I am doing it. This allows things to end up being what they are and not what I want them to be. And I believe that most of the time, there’s nothing wrong with things being the way they are. I think when things are the way they are, somehow, they are right.

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