Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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.
Nature engenders the science of painting.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.