Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every good painter paints what he is.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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