I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse to a great blessing.

Light is therefore color.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.