One Never Paints Violently Enough.

[photography Is] In Some Ways False Just Because It Is So Exact.

Do All The Work You Can; That Is The Whole Philosophy Of The Good Way Of Life.

Everything Is A Subject; The Subject Is Yourself. It Is Within Yourself That You Must Look And Not Around You... The Greatest Happiness Is To Reveal It To Others, To Study Oneself, To Paint Oneself Continually In [one's] Work.

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 Contour Should Come Last, Only A Very Experienced Eye Can Place It Rightly.