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

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

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.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.