You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.