To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.