It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

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.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.