A weak background is a deadly thing.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

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

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

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.