Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

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

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

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