I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.