How Kitsch are you? Is it inappropriate to paint a portrait of Joseph Stalin?Yes, beauty is a symbol of public moral.No. Even improper people should be depicted noble.Are people with symmetrical faces stupid?Yes, they lack depth of character.No, they are magnanimous. Ill-proportioned men are scoundrels.Is there more to a painting than what meets the eye?If a painting has soul, it’s something outside the technical execution.Nothing exists beyond the surface of the canvas.Let’s take The Prodigal Son by Rembrandt — what can you learn from it?It should teach us about moral ideas.Beauty is independent from education.Can you make an impersonal self-portrait?Any portraiture should display a universal, not personal truth.No, then it would no longer be an expression of the self.What’s the purpose of painting?To utter universal truths.Painting is for painting's sake.Should a work transcend the limitations of physical scale and order?Beautiful things are neither miniscule or gigantic according to nature.Freedom from the restraints of reality is the key to making a great work.You’re hungry and desire a fruit in a painting — what’s the right quotation?The fruit is so lifelike that your desire increases.The desire is due to your hunger — an impure judgment of taste.Comedy or tragedy?Comedy, since laughing prolongs life.Tragedy, since it's more substantial and depicts superior people.What is appealing in Mona Lisa?That which is familiar to us.Something divergent.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession