He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
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.
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.