When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.