The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.
There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.
