All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

We are not here to do what has already been done.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.