There is no art without contemplation.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

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