The Art Spirit

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Everybody who has any respect for painting feels scared when he starts a new canvas.

I am sure there are many people—and there are artists—who have never seen a whole head. They look from feature to feature. You can’t draw a head until you see it whole. It’s not easy. Try it.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The pernicious influence of prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. You can give prizes justly for long-distance jumps, because you can measure jumps with a foot-rule. No way has been devised for measuring the value of a work of art. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong. With few exceptions the gr

The technique learned without a purpose is a formula which when used, knocks the life out of any ideas to which it is applied.

good picture is a fruit of all your great living.

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

Self-education, only, produces expression of self. Don’t ask for a criticism until you are sure you can’t give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it. You cannot impose education on anyone.