“What good is it being a painter if you can't paint yourself?”
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
“Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.”
“'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.”
“Being a painter, I ought to say why in pictures people's faces are painted green and red.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”