If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

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

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

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