Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.


Quoted in Journals 'War and Peace' (1956) by Jean Cocteau


Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.