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.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

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

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.