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.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

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

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.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

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.