These are wonderful, inspiring remarks, aren't they? But they are things that you only understand after you have come to that conclusion yourself. After you have done these things in your own work. They are comments to reassure you that you have done the right thing, not a mandate for what you should do, because once you consciously try to apply these things to a painting they don't work. They only come about when you have forgotton all about the spontaneity you are trying to achieve and are simply enjoying painting. By humbling yourself, forgetting these noble aims, painting for yourself, for the process and not the effect, then the effect is achieved. And greatly! As Picasso (was it?) said - don't paint a picture; paint a painting. It will end up as a picture anyway.
Thomasin
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