The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

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.

An artist is an explorer.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.