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.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

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

We are not here to do what has already been done.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

There is no art without contemplation.