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

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

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.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

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