Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Every good painter paints what he is.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.