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

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

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

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.