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

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.