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.

There is no art without contemplation.

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.