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The successful painter is continually painting still life.
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.
Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing.
It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.
Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
Each day has its own individuality of color.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.
Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world.
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Try to do ugly things so that you make them beautiful ... The more delicate the thing is in nature the more one must look for the solemn note. Color in nature is never pretty, it's beautiful.
Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.
