Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

Those who cannot begin do not finish.