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.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

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

A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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.