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

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

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