Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

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.

Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

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