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

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

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

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

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.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

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