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.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.