All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

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

Do whatever you do intensely.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.