An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.