Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
A great painting is a great painting.
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
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