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

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

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

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.

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

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.