Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.