I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects. . . instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.
All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well.
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.
Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.
The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.