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.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

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.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.