Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

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

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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.

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

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?