1. “Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”
2. “The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.”
3. “Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hop for heaven.”
4. “Don’t be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most origina, borrowed from everybody.”
5. “Assimilate all you can from traditions and then say things in your own way.”
6. “Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind civilization.”
7. “Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.”
8. “Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.”
9. “In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.”
10. “The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.”
11. “A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.”
12. “Line is the most powerful device of drawing.”
13. “The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.”
14. “Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.”
15. “Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.”
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