The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Every good painter paints what he is.
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.