Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed..

Painting is a strange business..

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish o….

It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confin….

Light is therefore color..

Indistinctness is my forte..

I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that ….

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his lin….

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create..

There's a sketch at every turn..

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it..

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work..

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know..

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like..