Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they l….

The thicker you paint, the more it flows..

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry..

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh..

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth..

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire..

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid fa….

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes..

I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I ….

Mine is the horny hand of toil..

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth..

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished..

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called ….

I do not judge, I only chronicle..

Make the best of an emergency..

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents..

Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up….

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark..

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with..

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend..