I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

Truly color is vice! Of course, it can be, and has the right to be one of the finest virtues. Controlled by the strong hand and careful guidance of her Master drawing, color is a splendid Mistress, with a mate worthy of herself, her lover, but her Master likewise, the most magnificent Mistress possible, and the result is evident in all the glorious things that spring from their union.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.