There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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.