With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.