There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

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.

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

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