Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.