There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.