Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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.

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

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.