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

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.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.