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.

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.

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

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.