Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

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

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.