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.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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