The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

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

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

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.

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