Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

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

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.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

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

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.