The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
Battle against obscurity.
We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists – find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest – but let us not ask them to please us in doing it.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Do whatever you do intensely.
Let every 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.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.