It is good to love many things
What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .
How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.
And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.