Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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