Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

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

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

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

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.

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