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

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

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.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

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.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.