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

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.

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.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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

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

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.