Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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

A weak background is a deadly thing.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.