Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.