Do whatever you do intensely.

Study to appreciate.

Don’t belong to any school. Don’t tie up to any technique.

I believe in the study of technique. One should know as far as possible all the possibilities of a medium.

I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens.

If you want to know how to do a thing you must first have a complete desire to do that thing. Then go to kindred spirits—others who have wanted to do that thing—and study their ways and means, learn from their successes and failures and add your quota. Thus you may acquire from the experience of the race. And with this technical knowledge you may

We are instinctively blind to what is not relative. We are not cameras. We select. We do this always when we are not painting.

No one can get anywhere without contemplation. Busy people who do not make contemplation part of their business do not do much for all their effort.

There is the new movement. There always has been the new movement and there always will be the new movement. It is strange that a thing which comes as regularly as clockwork should always be a surprise. In new movements the pendulum takes a great swing, charlatans crowd in, innocent apes follow, the masters make their successes and they make their