And you must be yourself. The best way to achieve a style is to forget about it. Of course there is energy out there, in your field of vision, all the buzzing excitement and vibration of light and air bathing everything you see. But what counts is not just what you see but what you feel - and what you do with it. You feel with your eyes, and your mind, with your heart, and farther down with your guts.
Painting is visceral.
The transformation takes places within and it comes out at your finger tips. Art is not nature. That is God's creation. Art is not the imitation of nature. Painting is creating - putting marks on paper.