Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.