There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.
Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
Exactitude is not truth.
It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else
You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.