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

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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