The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.