With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.