I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.