The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.