Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they w….

The underlying principles or fundamentals should be so hidden away by the beauty they are eventually to support, that it would require much digging t….

The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's biddin….

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts..

The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are like music ….

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over..

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student..

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows..

You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living t….

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them,….

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years..

Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the….

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside o….

It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves….

Do not be afraid that too much labour over the composition is going to kill the spontaneity. Those who absorb and digest their experiences are, of a ….

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs..

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that m….

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having y….

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling..

This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtaina….

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas..