How Kitsch are you? 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.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.Is talent given by birth?It‘s a natural gift and cannot be taught.Man can produce excellence through practice.Is it fair to compare one work to another?Things differ from each other – therefore they must be compared.The greatest works are beyond comparison.Is habitation the only function of architecture?Yes, form follows function, creating a building’s own beauty.No, ornamentation is crucial for man’s harmony with nature.How should a work be judged?By contemplation.If it's not good enough the audience eats their carried lunch instead.The most gripping representation of the Holocaust is possible by—Showing the tragic events as they actually happened.Showing them in a dramatized form.You add an extra element to a composition — should you keep it there?If that is what the composition demands.You decide based on introspection.How do you respond to the spinning wheel in The Spinners by Velasquez?Recognition of the spinning wheel pleases the viewer.Forget what you know about spinning wheels, and judge it as a loosely painted circle.Can a work of excellence be ascribed to a method?It's detached from all rules.Certain techniques work better than others.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession