In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.