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

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

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.

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

The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

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