If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.
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