Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

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

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

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.

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