Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.