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.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.