Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
What if someone created some sort of eyebrow pencil that was revolutionary and that was made specifically to help eyebrows look more realistic?
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.