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

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

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

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

A weak background is a deadly thing.