Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

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

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.