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.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.