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

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

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.

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

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.