I’m quoting from a quote here. I read this passage from Stravinsky’s Poetics of Music in a book about the great Californian painter, Richard Diebenkorn. It reflects a lot of my thinking on the question of what subject matter to paint about.
“My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. I shall go even further: my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.”