There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.