Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.