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

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

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

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

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