A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter..

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition..

Colors are beautiful when they are significant..

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten..

Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted..

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think..

Those who cannot begin do not finish..

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men..

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away..

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable..

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in….

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map..

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you..

Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't sto….

There is no art without contemplation..

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging..

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back..

Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy..

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you..