Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

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.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.