Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
The face is the soul of the body.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.