The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.