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.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

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.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.