When I Judge Art, I Take My

Personally I Would Like To Have Pupils, A Studio, Pass On My Love To Them, Work With Them, Without Teaching Them Anything.. ..a Convent, A Monastery, A Phalanstery Of Painting Where One Could Train Together.. ..but No Programme, No Instruction In Painting.. ..drawing Is Still Alright, It Doesn't Count, But Painting - The Way To Learn Is To Look At The Masters, Above All At Nature, And To Watch Other People Painting.

Is It The Factitious And The Conventional That Most Surely Succeed On Earth And In The Course Of Life?

Knowledge Of The Means To Express Our Emotion Is Essential- And Is Acquired Only After A Very Long Experience.

It's So Fine And Yet So Terrible To Stand In Front Of A Blank Canvas.

Perhaps I Was Born Too Early. I Was More The Painter Of Your Generation Than Of Mine.