I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

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.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.