Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

Inspiration is nothing without work.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.