An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

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.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.