Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.