Seeing is believing ?

When something inspires me, I see it already painted on the canvas; then I know it is time to paint. I walk ........and look around me ..........and I am thinking 

"I could paint that with a contrast here and there"

or

"I think it would be nice to paint those house with a shadow along the windows"

or

"few storkes with my palette knife and this would be finished in no time"

Even before I fall asleep it is easy to paint in my mind. I just sort of see it unfolding before my eyes. Very often I see what I want to paint directly on my canvas but sometimes, I also think that the painting that came to me as a pretty vision was not a good idea afterall. Still it is as if I am wearing a special pair of glasses: I see already made paintings.
Sometimes I just feel so frustrated when a painting has not come out the way I was imagining it would look like. I always ask myself whether Claude Monet ever experienced failure. Did Vincent ever felt a work was a good idea and soon after it all went sour? Somehow I just think that great masters never failed but then I know, that most bad paintings never made it to a wall anywhere. Very much like when someone take a picture of us and when soon after you look at it on the screen you delete it immediately. Unconsciously you think that that picture was not the way you would like the posterity to remember you by.
You decide which part of yourself should be exposed or what to pass on but in the end people see things and then decide to believe what they see.