Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

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