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.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

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

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.