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

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

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?

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.