It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him..

Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better….

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture..

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his cont….

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life..

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes..

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic..

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from oth….

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and t….

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment ….

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly..

Color is only beautiful when it means something..

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke..

The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutel….

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes succ….

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been..

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseveranc….

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties..

All is as beautiful as we think it..

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out..

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible..