A Wife Of Your Own Stature Is

Everyone Knows That Yellow, Orange, And Red Suggest Ideas Of Joy And Plenty. I Can Paint You The Skin Of Venus With Mud, Provided You Let Me Surround It As I Will.

Cold Exactitude Is Not Art; Ingenious Artifice, When It Pleases Or When It Expresses, Is Art Itself.

I Have Told Myself A Hundred Times That Painting - That Is, The Material Thing Called A Painting - Is No More Than A Pretext, The Bridge Between The Mind Of The Painter And The Mind Of The Spectator.

You Increase Your Self-respect When You Feel You've Done Everything You Ought To Have Done, And If There Is Nothing Else To Enjoy, There Remains That Chief Of Pleasures, The Feeling Of Being Pleased With Oneself. A Man Gets An Immense Amount Of Satisfaction From The Knowledge Of Having Done Good Work And Of Having Made The Best Use Of His Day, And When I Am In This State I Find That I Thoroughly Enjoy My Rest And Even The Mildest Forms Of Recreation.

The Only Ones Who Can Really Benefit By Consulting The Model Are Those Who Can Produce Their Effect Without A Model.