Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

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.

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.