It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.

If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.

You want to hear that!??!?- I am going to give you... what you want....

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.