Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

There is no such thing as an ugly woman.

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.