Everybody has their reasons.
There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.