What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.