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I mix them with my brains, sir.
I mix them with my brains, sir.
 I only feel, but want the power to paint.
 [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]  
 I only feel, but want the power to paint.
 [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] 
I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn
I paint things as they are. I don't comment.rn
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
 He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
 [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]  
 He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
 [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] 
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
 The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
 Is the best picture.  
 The picture that approaches sculpture nearest
 Is the best picture. 
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think read more
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.