You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

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

There is no art without contemplation.

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.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

Your style is the way you talk in paint.