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Below is an excerpt of comments from Wolf Kahn, a noted landscape painter that Christopher Volpe did in 2017.  Here is a link to the recent article that Christopher did and posted at Streamline Publishing.

https://streamlinepublishing.com/inside-art/what-life-should-be-about/

After reading the article from Christopher Volpe, and looking at Wolf Kahn's work,  I find a kinship to the words that Wolf Kahn used to describe why he painted and what a painting is and what a painting meant to him in his life.

‘What Life Should Be About’

I try in my painting to express my sense of what life should be about – life in the sense of being large-spirited and generous, to not get involved in small issues. It’s very easy to get involved in small issues in painting. I want the whole painting to be like one big movement, the largest possible issue. Of course, it’s very difficult to do because you have to do it through a whole series of small moves.

My painting sort of proceeds through a series of mistakes …. that’s how you learn, how you get angry at the painting, how you generate energy – there’s something about the process itself that you have a feeling is very much like life. People live from day to day – I paint from moment to moment.

A painting is really the record of a moment of discovery, a moment in your life, a moment in your sensibility, and then of course, like everything else, you find a value in it that you want to share with the rest of humanity, because you consider yourself everyone’s brother and friend. So you hand it on and sometimes you get lucky and it’s accepted.”