Ed Askew quotes:

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

Most days I only go out to the post office or to get some food. Otherwise I work on my art or music. I check out the news, and generally spend a lot of time on Tumblr or Facebook or whatever.

What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Cézanne through the 1950s.

I don't like sleeping in a different place every night, but I do like meeting new people.

I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

The issue of innovation never interested me personally, since I believe it may lead to a place where people don't paint anymore.

It's hard to say what exactly I like about New York. It's so vast. It seems to go on and on, but that's an illusion. Still, it's fun to be here, especially since I don't drive.