...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.