I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
I write what I see; I paint what I am.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.