How Kitsch are you? 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.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.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.What is appealing in Mona Lisa?That which is familiar to us.Something divergent.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.Is talent given by birth?It‘s a natural gift and cannot be taught.Man can produce excellence through practice.Should Romeo and Juliet sentimentalize the audience?Pity and fear should be evoked just hearing the basic outline of the story.Tender emotions deprive us from the feeling of duty.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.Should you reflect your cultural background?Yes, inherited knowledge must be carried on through tradition.No. Extract the most substantial from any tradition.A nude by Lucian Freud or a nude by Andrew Wyeth?Freud – an uncomplimentary approach to reality challenges the viewer.Wyeth – great painters depict their subjects with dignity.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession