The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to liv…

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch …

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of …

- Albert Pinkham Ryder

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemb…

- Albert Pinkham Ryder