The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

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.

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

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

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.