I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.