Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the ….

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues..

You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the bra….

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization..

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, mo….

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life..

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody..

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven..

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place….

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form..

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from ….

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art..

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind..

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subj….

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means..

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color..

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way..

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the….

Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whol….

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the t….

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life..