There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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.