“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”—Claude Monet (via tender)
“A painter who loves his art should carefully avoid spending too much time with critics and literary people. These individuals, probably unintentionally, deform things by trying to explain everything, taking thought, will, and artistic sensitivities and shearing them just as Delilah sheared Samson.”—Georges Rouault
