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Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don’t be carried away by subtleties of modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form.

Find your own technique.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time – condemned to painting for life.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let’s knock them while they’re alive.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

Don’t be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist’s thought.

Form your own color concept of things in nature. I have no rules for fine color to give you.

Be sensitive to your mistakes. Put it on the wall for a couple of weeks. It may be that you can learn more from the study of your own work than from others.

You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don’t let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don’t be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.

The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes and has carried art away from the stream of tradition. Tradition is our heritage of knowledge and experience. We can’t get along without it.

To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.

I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just ‘coloriness,’ color excitement. To think of color for color’s sake is like thinking of sound for sound’s sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Don’t think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of ‘wetness’ as color-texture.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.

The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

Don’t be stingy with your paint, it isn’t worth it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.