The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

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

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

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.

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