To be an artist is to believe in life.

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

People think that they see, but they don't.

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.