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

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea