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

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

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

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.

There is no art without contemplation.

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