Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
There is no art without contemplation.
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge – each line adds strength and takes none away.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
It’s a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven’t learned everything and they know it.
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
We are not here to do what has already been done.