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

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

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

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.