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

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.