There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
More than a process, painting is being possessed.