The Big Painter Is One Who Has

Art When Really Understood Is The Province Of Every Human Being. It Is Simply A Question Of Doing Things, Anything, Well. It Is Not An Outside, Extra Thing.

You Can Do Anything You Want To Do. What Is Rare Is This Actual Wanting To Do A Specific Thing: Wanting It So Much That You Are Practically Blind To All Other Things, That Nothing Else Will Satisfy You.

Students Work In Schools Making Life Studies For Years, Win Prizes For Life Studies And Find In The End That They Know Practically Nothing Of The Human Figure. They Have Acquired The Ability To Copy.

Each Man Must Take The Material That He Finds At Hand, See That In It There Are The Big Truths Of Life, The Fundamentally Big Forces, And Then Express In His Art Whatever Is The Cause Of His Pleasure.

You Will Never Draw The Sense Of A Thing Unless You Are Feeling It At The Time You Work.