Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done