Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

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.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.