Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Life is an art, and you are the artist.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.