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A painter goes out not because he wants to paint a picture, but because of the beauty and comparison of one spot of color with another, not a literary beauty but beauty because it stirs him. Painting is a matter of impulse, it is a matter of getting out to nature and having some joy in registering it. If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start. You cannot bring reason to bear on painting— the eye looks up and gets and impression and that is what you want to register. Good painting is an excitement, an aesthetic emotion— reasonable painting destroys emotion. Painters don’t reason, they do. The moment they reason they are lost— subconscious thought counts.

— Hawthorne on Painting, 1938