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.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

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.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.