A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

There is no art without contemplation.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.