When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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