In A Tree There Is A Spirit

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.

Art Cannot Be Separated From Life. It Is The Expression Of The Greatest Need Of Which Life Is Capable, And We Value Art Not Because Of The Skilled Product, But Because Of Its Revelation Of A Life's Experience.

To Have Ideas One Must Have Imagination. To Express Ideas One Must Have Science.

Beauty Is No Material Thing. Beauty Cannot Be Copied. Beauty Is The Sensation Of Pleasure On The Mind Of The Seer. No Thing Is Beautiful. But All Things Await The Sensitive And Imaginative Mind That May Be Aroused To Pleasurable Emotion At Sight Of Them. This Is Beauty.

An Artist's Job Is To Surprise Himself. Use All Means Possible.