The Art Spirit

It is not desirable to devote all your time to an appreciation of art. Art should drive you forth. It should be an incentive to life. The greatest value of art to the appreciator is in that it stimulates to personal activity.

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

Let a student enter the school with this advice: No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self-education.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

No use trying to draw a thing until you have got all around it. It is only then that you comprehend a unity of which the parts can be treated as parts.

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

No vacillating or uncertain interest can produce a unity.

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.