The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
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.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
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.
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.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.
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.