Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.