Swing a bigger brush - you don't know what you're missing..

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts..

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind..

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets..

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost..

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished..

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start..

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula..

Paint what you see, not what you know..

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint..

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you….

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large….

To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world..

Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good th….

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him..

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors..

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so..

Each day has its own individuality of color..

It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one..

Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on..

See what you can do with your daring with color and your ignorance mixed with it..