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

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

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

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.