He That Would Be A Painter Must

Nature Holds The Beautiful, For The Artist Who Has The Insight To Extract It. Thus, Beauty Lies Even In Humble, Perhaps Ugly Things, And The Ideal, Which Bypasses Or Improves On Nature, May Not Be Truly Beautiful In The End.

Why Has God Given Me Such Magnificent Talent? It Is A Curse As Well As A Great Blessing.

There Is No Man On Earth Who Can Give A Final Judgment On What The Most Beautiful Shape May Be. Only God Knows.

An Artist Of Understanding And Experience Can Show More Of His Great Power And Art In Small Things Roughly And Rudely Done, Than Many Another In A Great Work. A Man May Often Draw Something With His Pen On A Half Sheet Of Paper In One Day . . . . And It Shall Be Fuller Of Art And Better Than Another's Great Work Whereon He Hath Spent A Whole Year's Careful Labor.

Geometry Is The Foundation Of All Painting.