All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

Knowledge is power.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.