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

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers..

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic..

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one..

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves..

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it..

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were r….

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what ….

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and yo….

The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutel….

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know..

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated..

All education must be self-education..

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

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places..

Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea..

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended..

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things..

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive..