The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
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.