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.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

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

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.