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.

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

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

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.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

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