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

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

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.

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

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

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

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