I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

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

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

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

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.