If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

There is no art without contemplation.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

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

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.