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

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.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.