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

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

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?

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.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

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