I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
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