They can only give you answers. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. I do not seek.