When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

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

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.