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.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.