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.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

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

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

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.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.