All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Gray is the color of all theory

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.