All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

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.

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.

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

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

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