How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.