The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

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.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.