When I Judge Art, I

The Artist Must Scorn All Judgment That Is Not Based On An Intelligent Observation Of Character. He Must Beware Of The Literary Spirit Which So Often Causes A Painting To Deviate From Its True Path - The Concrete Study Of Nature - To Lose Itself All Too Long In Intangible Speculations.

Art First Of All Is Optical. That's Where The Material Of Our Art Is: In What Our Eyes Think.

All Pictures Painted Inside In The Studio Will Never Be As Good As The Things Done Outside.

I Wish To Die Painting.

One Does Not Substitute Oneself For The Past, One Merely Adds To It A New Link.