Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

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

Design is everything.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone, I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

History proves that the white man is a devil.

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.