Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.