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

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

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

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

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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.