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

Do whatever you do intensely.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

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.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

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