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

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

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

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

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

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

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.