Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.