Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

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

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

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.

You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.