"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."
"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."
"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."