Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

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

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

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.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.