All Education Must Be Self-education.

An Artist Must First Of All Respond To His Subject, He Must Be Filled With Emotion Toward That Subject And Then He Must Make His Technique So Sincere, So Translucent That It May Be Forgotten, The Value Of The Subject Shining Through It.

Painting Should Never Look As If It Were Done With Difficulty, However Difficult It May Actually Have Been.

After All, The Goal Is Not Making Art. It Is Living A Life. Those Who Live Their Lives Will Leave The Stuff That Is Really Art.

Know What The Old Masters Did. Know How They Composed Their Pictures, But Do Not Fall Into The Conventions They Established. These Conventions Were Right For Them, And They Are Wonderful. They Made Their Language. You Make Yours. All The Past Can Help You.

Art Cannot Be Separated From Life. It Is The Expression Of The Greatest Need Of Which Life Is Capable, And We Value Art Not Because Of The Skilled Product, But Because Of Its Revelation Of A Life's Experience.