Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

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.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

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