Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

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

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.