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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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.
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.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.