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

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

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

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.