Those Who Cannot Begin Do Not Finish.

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.

The Pictures Which Do Not Represent An Intense Interest Cannot Expect To Create An Intense Interest.

Each Man Must Take The Material That He Finds At Hand, See That In It There Are The Big Truths Of Life, The Fundamentally Big Forces, And Then Express In His Art Whatever Is The Cause Of His Pleasure.

Strokes Carry A Message Whether You Will It Or Not. The Stroke Is Just Like The Artist At The Time He Makes It. All The Certainties, All The Uncertainties, All The Bigness Of His Spirit And The Littlenesses Are In It.

Knowledge Of Anatomy Is A Tool Like Good Brushes.