Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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.

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.

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.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.