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

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

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

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

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

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.