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

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

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

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

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.

All is as beautiful as we think it.