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

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

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

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

A weak background is a deadly thing.