I Paint For The Sole Purpose Of

If A Certain Activity, Such As Painting, Becomes The Habitual Mode Of Expression, It May Follow That Taking Up The Painting Materials And Beginning Work With Them Will Act Suggestively And So Presently Evoke A Flight Into The Higher State.

I Am Interested In The Size Of Your Intention. It Is Better To Overstate The Important Than To Understate It.

Paint What You Feel. Paint What You See. Paint What Is Real To You.

When The Artist Is Alive In Any Person, Whatever His Kind Of Work May Be, He Becomes An Inventive, Searching, Daring, Self-expressing Creature.

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.