Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

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.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.