Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

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

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

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

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.