“Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them.However, one cannot paint the farewell.”
“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished making love?”
“I looked across to his picture on the wall, the one that showed him with a pained look on this face, with a bleeding heart painted on his chest. I knew exactly how he felt.”
“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”