There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

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.

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

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.