Choose only one master - Nature.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.