Every Time I Paint A Portrait I

An Artist Painting A Picture Should Have At His Side A Man With A Club To Hit Him Over The Head When The Picture Is Finished.

Cultivate An Ever Continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever You Are, Be Always Ready To Make Slight Notes Of Postures, Groups And Incidents. Store Up In The Mind... A Continuous Stream Of Observations From Which To Make Selections Later. Above All Things Get Abroad, See The Sunlight And Everything That Is To Be Seen.

I Do Not Judge, I Only Chronicle.

A Person With Normal Eyesight Would Have Nothing To Know In The Way Of 'impressionism' Unless He Were In A Blinding Light Or In The Dusk Or Dark.

Make The Best Of An Emergency.