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.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

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.

Listen! There was never an artistic period. There was never an art-loving nation.

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.