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.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

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

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

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

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.