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.

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.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Your style is the way you talk in paint.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.