Do whatever you do intensely.
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.
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.
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
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.
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.
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.
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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.
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