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.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

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.

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

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.