Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to ….

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development..

Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come ….

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra….

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you..

Do whatever you do intensely..

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it..

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are….

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere….

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite….

We are not here to do what has already been done..

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself..

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up..

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece..

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living..

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a r….

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..

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye..