It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by t….

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form..

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul..

The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cas….

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture..

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud..

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it..

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fa….

I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the s….

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff..

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy..

You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning... Look for the co….

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, wil….

If in making a picture you introduce two ideas, you weaken it by half-if three, it weakens by compound ratio-if four, the picture will be really too ….

A good deal of large and rather interesting work is drifting my way..

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York..

Young people, don't get the idea that you have an artistic temperament which must be humored. Don't believe you cannot do good work unless you feel i….

Paint ideas, paint thought..

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons..

(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat..

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free an….