I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.