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.Should your work reflect your time?The spirit of your time is also your own spirit.If you reflect your time you will die along with it.A nude by Matisse or a nude by Zorn?Matisse – if it's too sensually rendered, it ceases to be valid.Zorn – great painters render the world more sensual than it is.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.Is a great work made with joy?Emotional state will not inflict the result.Things are better achieved with pleasure.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 nature be surpassed?Works of man cannot outclass the beauty of nature.It's possible to improve upon nature.Should a work be decorated?Scene-paintings in a play can be emotionally attractive.Decoration will hinder the real beauty of the play itself.Comedy or tragedy?Comedy, since laughing prolongs life.Tragedy, since it's more substantial and depicts superior people.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession