Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.