The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
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.
I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.