There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

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.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul