What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.
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.
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.
The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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