A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world