If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

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.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

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