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A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

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.

Every good painter paints what he is.

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.