Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.