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

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.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

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