Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

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

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

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.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.