To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

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.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

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

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.