Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

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.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.