Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

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.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.