Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

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.

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.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.