No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

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

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.