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.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.