It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Silence is so accurate.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer

While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.