It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

States, as great engines, move slowly.