You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

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

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.