Of all the professions, the painter is the one who must seek with more clarity the science of being present. Only if endowed with all his energy turned to the present he will be able to see what is in front of him.
The act of seeing colors can only occur in a specific moment of time, not being possible to be realized genuinely neither with memories nor with projections.
The nostalgia of the Past saturates the colors too much, distances them from each other, making become caricatures of a moment and no longer the moment itself. On the other hand the Future maintains the gentle colors but destroys the harmony between them, since it is not possible to project the complexity of nature through imagination.
A picture can only be good if it is sincere, there is no other possible condition for its existence, but don’t be fooled to think that an artwork occurs only in the Present, the understanding of the three times is fundamental for the execution of a harmonious and true painting.