There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

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

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.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

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.