Every Time I Paint A Portrait I

You Can't Do Sketches Enough. Sketch Everything And Keep Your Curiosity Fresh.

I Do Not Judge, I Only Chronicle.

Cultivate An Ever Continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever You Are, Be Always Ready To Make Slight Notes Of Postures, Groups And Incidents. Store Up In The Mind... A Continuous Stream Of Observations From Which To Make Selections Later. Above All Things Get Abroad, See The Sunlight And Everything That Is To Be Seen.

A Person With Normal Eyesight Would Have Nothing To Know In The Way Of 'impressionism' Unless He Were In A Blinding Light Or In The Dusk Or Dark.

Color Is An Inborn Gift, But Appreciation Of Value Is Merely Training Of The Eye, Which Everyone Ought To Be Able To Acquire.