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

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.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

Count on big lines to express your ideas.

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.