Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order..

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

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" fa….

It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it..

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life..

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual..

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not..

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat..

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self ….

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized..

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think..

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

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy..

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

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

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay..

The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial..

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not..

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea..

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love..

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness..