I have been trying to make this matter clear—this matter that the whole fun of the thing is in seeing and inventing, trying to refute a common idea that education is a case of collecting and storing, instead of making. It’s not easy. But the matter is mighty well worth considering.

We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other.

When away from model draw from memory. Draw also opposite or very different views from what you had in the class.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

love the tools made for mechanics. I stop at the windows of hardware stores. If I could only find an excuse to buy many more of them than I have already bought on the mere pretense that I might have use for them! They are so beautiful, so simple and plain and straight to their meaning. There is no “Art” about them, they have not been made beautiful

Some students possess the school they work in. Others are possessed by the school.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

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.

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.