The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.