Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

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

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

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.