It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

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

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.