Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.

Chase used to say, 'When you're looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.'

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Paint what you see, not what you know.