Imagination Comes In After We Have Experience.

I Don't Like Persuaded Sitters. I Never Could Paint A Cat If The Cat Had Any Scruples, Religious, Superstitious, Or Otherwise, About Sitting.

Strive For Simplicity! Don't Have The Face A Checkerboard Of Tints! Use Such Colors As Nature Uses, But Not Try To Keep Them Distinct! Your Work May Be Called Monotonous, But One Tone Is Better Than Many Which Do Not Harmonize.

It's No Easy Matter To Paint A Background. I Venture To Say That The Old Painters Had More Difficulty With Their Grounds Than With Their Figures. You Know The Story Of Vandyke Brought To Rubens With This Recommendation: 'he Already Knows How To Paint A Background.' 'that Is More Than I Can Do!' Was The Reply.

Art Teaches You The Philosophy Of Life, And If You Can't Learn It From Art, You Can't Learn It At All. It Shows You That There Is No Perfection. There Is Light, And There Is Shadow. Everything Is In Half Tint.

Believe That Time Is Going To Help You Do What You Want.