Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.