Look Confused

It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think. Artist paint things as they think of them, not as they see them. When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience. There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Art is not what you think, but what you think is art. There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. Even when you think you're not thinking, you are thinking. Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Five percent of the people think; 10 percent of the people think they think; and the other 85 percent would rather die than think. The more you reason, the less you create. The soul never thinks without a picture. The scribble, the sketch, and the study are helpful as preparatory drawing techniques, and for thinking on paper.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.