The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

There is no art without contemplation.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.