I still don't undestand why people want to paint pictures of things. Things have been so beautifully painted, I can just about lay my life on our never being able to do them as well, let alone better. Take Michaelangelo and his figures. Do you really think you'll ever paint or draw them as well as he did, or better? If there is even a fleeting hestitation in answering, let me assure you that you will not. Even if you did, what would be gained by doing so? In an age of photography and nuclear imaging, the human body cannot possibly be presented more accurately by an artist. Same with all other objects, I'm afraid.
What we do have to offer is our point(s) of view. So paint that. Paint colors in personally loved combinations, paint shapes that grow out of your knowledge of the world, make the line to sing with your energy. Then you will have given the world yourself. They can go to photography for the other.
PW
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