Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

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.

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

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

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.