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

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.