If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

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

We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

Everybody has their reasons.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.