Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.