Painting

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of."

"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."