An Artist's Job Is To Surprise Himself.

I Am Interested In The Size Of Your Intention. It Is Better To Overstate The Important Than To Understate It.

Renoir Had Not Only A Great Interest In Human Character, In Human Feeling, But Had Also A Great Love For The People He Painted.

Do Whatever You Do Intensely. The Artist Is The Man Who Leaves The Crowd And Goes Pioneering. With Him There Is An Idea Which Is His Life.

An Artist Must First Of All Respond To His Subject, He Must Be Filled With Emotion Toward That Subject And Then He Must Make His Technique So Sincere, So Translucent That It May Be Forgotten, The Value Of The Subject Shining Through It.

In Certain Books—some Way In The First Few Paragraphs You Know That You Have Met A Brother.