As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.
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.
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.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
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.
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.