It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
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.
In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.