In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

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.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

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.