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

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

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.