The Contour Should Come Last,

Everything Is A Subject; The Subject Is Yourself. It Is Within Yourself That You Must Look And Not Around You... The Greatest Happiness Is To Reveal It To Others, To Study Oneself, To Paint Oneself Continually In [one's] Work.

If One Considered Life As A Simple Loan, One Would Perhaps Be Less Exacting. We Possess Actually Nothing; Everything Goes Through Us.

When A Thing Bores You, Do Not Do It.

A Picture Is Nothing But A Bridge Between The Soul Of The Artist And That Of The Spectator.

One Should Not Be Too Difficult. An Artist Should Not Treat Himself Like An Enemy.