Without great solitude no serious work is possible.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.