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.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

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.

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

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.