When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

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.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.