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

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.