Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.