Every good painter paints what he is. The painting has a life of its own. The artist is the antenna of the race. One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. But without it, we go nowhere.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. But you can . .