Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

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.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.