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Do whatever you do intensely.
All is as beautiful as we think it.
A weak background is a deadly thing.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
All education must be self-education.
There is no art without contemplation.
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
Colors are beautiful when they are significant.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
We are not here to do what has already been done.
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.