There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.