Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

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

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.