A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
I write what I see; I paint what I am.
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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