When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.
Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.