The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

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

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

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.