Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?