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

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

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.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

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.