Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.