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.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

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

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

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

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