Now there is fame! Of all / hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public / fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.
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