Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

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.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.