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"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."
"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. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order."
"Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece."
"Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you."
"By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision."
"If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling."
"All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed."
"There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body."
"The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay."
"Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words."
"Those who cannot begin do not finish."