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.Should you reflect your cultural background?Yes, inherited knowledge must be carried on through tradition.No. Extract the most substantial from any tradition.Can you take pleasure in an abstract painting?The spontaneous expression is heartfelt and true to the instinct of the painter.Colors spread at random give less pleasure than a portrait sketched in black and white.You and a friend stare at a landscape — is his view different from yours?Unless your friend’s got eye problems you will experience the same outlook.Neither can reach the true landscape behind your minds’ representation.What’s the purpose of painting?To utter universal truths.Painting is for painting's sake.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.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.You make a sculpture — who’s to criticize it?One who is independent from sculpting.It’s difficult to judge a sculpture if one has not sculpted.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.Any comments about the questionnaire? Your profession