Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

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

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

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.