You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
Art is an extension of language – an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
The real artist’s work is a surprise to himself.
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a “pretty” face make it, for “pretty” faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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.