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.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

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

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.