Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understa….

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train..

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

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

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….

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind..

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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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 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….

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..