I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.
The successful painter is continually painting still life.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.