Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.