The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.