Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

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

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.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

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.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.