Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

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