The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

- Asher Brown Durand

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

- Asher Brown Durand

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of …

- Asher Brown Durand

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

- Asher Brown Durand

All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of t…

- Asher Brown Durand