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.

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.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.